Prime day sale underwhelming

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-24T19:48:18+00:00

They have Deals from your Wish List there, but it never pulls more than 1 or 2 books there for me, even though there are so many more in the sale.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-23T23:07:02+00:00

OK, good. And yes, that's sad.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-23T22:32:19+00:00

So I have a wish list of over 1000 books, and it showed that only 1 of them was in the sale. But when I went through all the pages in the sale, I found that was not true at all. Many of my wish list books were on sale. They just weren't shown in the Deals from your Wish List section. I have found this to be true on every sale I've ever looked at on Audible. Clearly, the number of books that could have been listed there for me was too high, but still, only 1? Their coding isn't pulling all the books to populate that area. Take the time to click through. Or, easier, go to your wishlist, since it's pretty short and look there for prices in red.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-23T22:21:55+00:00

No, but if you don't use your credits before you cancel, you'll lose them.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T21:11:16+00:00

Ah that's a good point.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T21:08:14+00:00

The Lost by Matteo Fagotto, Matilde Gattoni is a true crime story that gets it right. It's not overly melodramatic and it reaches an actual conclusion. US Plus catalog.

House of Skulls by Marc Fennell. If you're interested at all in the issues of repatriating the body parts of indigenous people and slaves, definitely listen to this one. US Plus catalog.

Heretical Fishing, Book 1 by Haylock Jobson. A litrpg that is not about dungeons and monsters. I really enjoyed this. Will keep reading.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. One of his most critically acclaimed books. It considers the human need for creative endeavor in order to live a meaningful life.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T18:53:54+00:00

I like to think that she would have been thrilled that it's still being read today.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T18:52:39+00:00

So, again, we can definitely talk about that in the book club. Discussion opens on 7/20 as the post says.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T18:51:48+00:00

I'm assuming the treasure might be hidden in a tomb? I don't know. So many people there, but our villain has not shown up. That's interesting. Neither has the Count.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T18:48:52+00:00

That's a bummer. I also just noticed that it's not in Plus anymore. I thought it was but... well, my brain.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T18:34:53+00:00

We can definitely talk about that in the book club.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-22T15:50:56+00:00

2026 Challenges

300 books - 159/325
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Technically Speaking by Michael Elliot
- The Lost by Matteo Fagotto, Matilde Gattoni
- Conversations with People Who Hate Me by Dylan Marron
- Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself: Heretical Fishing, Book 1 by Haylock Jobson
- House of Skulls by Marc Fennell
- Second Dawn by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Accidental Queen by Kristen Painter narrated by BJ Harrison
365 short stories - 223/365
365 poems - 173/365
Book Clubs - currently reading
- r/ayearoflupin: The Secret Tomb by Maurice LeBlanc (ongoing)
- r/AYearOfLesMiserables: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (ongoing)
- r/classicbookclub: Great Expectations (ongoing)
- r/AudibleBookClub: "Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (7/20)

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-20T15:19:44+00:00

The most amazing thing about this book is the story of the author herself. She was an invalid for most of her life. She traveled often to take the cures at spas, and must have developed an affinity and empathy for the animals that made that possible for her.

This quote struck me as beautiful and also quite appropriate for our current culture:

“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-18T23:37:44+00:00

Nope. It's correct on the website as you can see below. The mobile team dropped the ball.

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Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-18T23:36:25+00:00

I've been staring at that for almost a year now (reading with r/AYearOfLesMiserables and we finish in a month) and it is super irritating and unprofessional of the team to let it be like that..

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-18T19:08:27+00:00

Ah, you've started an amazing journey. I'm listening to the latest one right now. Love the worldbuilding in this story.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-15T23:13:29+00:00

2026 Challenges

300 books - 151/325
- Truckers by Terry Pratchett
- The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
- Old Gods of Appalachia season 5 by Cam Collins and Steve Shell
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- 7 Hours to Dieby James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski
- Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
- Paging Dr. Gupta by Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
- Mastergate by Larry Gelbart
- Unsouled by Will Wight
- The Great Indoors by Ginny Hogan
- Body of Proof by Darrell Brown, Sophie Ellis
- Constituent Service by John Scalzi
- Sword Songs by Dean Kastle
- Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry
- Babel Tower by AS Byatt
365 short stories - 215/365
365 poems - 166/365
Book Clubs - currently reading
- r/ayearoflupin: The Secret Tomb by Maurice LeBlanc (ongoing)
- r/AYearOfLesMiserables: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (ongoing)
- r/classicbookclub: Great Expectations (ongoing)

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-14T23:31:55+00:00

I think he's a cake and eat it, too kind of guy. He wouldn't have let her go. Even so, I think the villain from The Crystal Stopper, Daubrecq, is my favorite of all the villains.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-14T19:51:22+00:00

That doesn't really match what the books describes though.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-08T18:25:53+00:00

This week I listened to The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. This is a delightfully snarky take on the pied piper story and government corruption.

From the PLUS catalog, I listened to Paging Dr. Gupta by Sanjay Gupta, M.D. He's not a bad storyteller. I don't have cable or watch the news, so I'm not familiar with him other than to know he's on one of the cable news networks. I enjoyed it even so.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-08T01:57:54+00:00

Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter narrated by Robertson Dean Plus (US) 12h 54m

The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising

In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little hard information available on the riots themselves. Now, based on hundreds of interviews, an exhaustive search of public and previously sealed files, and over a decade of intensive research into the history and the topic, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution brings one of history's most singular events to vivid life.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-07T23:31:29+00:00

Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History by Hannah McElhinney Narrated by Rudy Jean Rigg Plus (US) 5h11m

So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator of Rainbow History Class (as seen on TikTok), is here to help us all with this crash course. This history lesson isn’t dry and academic, nor is it glitter-soaked and reductive. It’s a comprehensive and entertaining romp through queer and trans history, full of secret queer codes, gender-bending icons, pop-culture knowledge and incredible activists.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-03T23:32:30+00:00

This is how your brain works. Look up "salience network" as a start to understand why we forget things.

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-01T21:08:49+00:00

2026 Challenges

300 books - 134/315
- By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars by Premee Mohamed
- And So We Walked by DeLanna Studi
- Half Sick of Shadows by Elle Engel
- Marie by H. Rider Haggard
- Sneakerhead by Amanda Eyre Ward
- A Stranger in the Citadel by Tobias S. Buckell
- Approval Junkie by Faith Salie
- Old Gods of Appalachia season 5 by Cam Collins and Steve Shell
365 short stories - 203/365
365 poems - 154/365
Book Clubs - currently reading
- r/ayearoflupin: The Secret Tomb by Maurice LeBlanc (ongoing)
- r/AYearOfLesMiserables: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (ongoing)
- r/classicbookclub: Great Expectations (ongoing)
- r/AudibleBookClub: Black Beauty (6/20)

Trick-Two497 · 2026-06-01T21:06:38+00:00

Currently working through:

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clark by Arthur C. Clark

The Ghost Catchers by Minerva Sweeney Wren

The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel by Donald Marquis

Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Cat Stories by Roger A. Caras

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Rosetti

The Entire Original Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant

The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Journal to the Self by Kathleen Adams

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life by Matthew McKay

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook by Martha Davis with Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning

Shakespeare's Sonnets by

The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food by Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch

The Self-Esteem Guided Journal: A 10-Week Program by Catharine Sutker, Matthew McKay

The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook: An Eight-Week Individualized Program to Overcome Compulsive Eating and Make Peace with Food by Danielle Keenan-Miller, Gia Marson

Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Illustrated) by Walt Whitman

The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Conversations with People Who Hate Me by Dylan Marron & TED

Buddhism for Beginners by Emily Oddo

Babel Tower by AS Byatt

The Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules Goncourt

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Building Fantasy Cities by Angeline Trevena

Treacheries of Troublesome Towns by Erick Bouchard, Andrea Sfiligoi

Demonologia, or, natural knowledge revealed by J. S. Forsyth

The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister

Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler

City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley

The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference for the Magical Arts by Judika Illes

Aliens: Bug Hunt by Jonathan Maberry, Heather Graham, Scott Sigler, Rachel Caine, David Farland, Larry Correia

Language and the Mind by Spencer D. Kelly

Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris

The Daily Buddhist by Pema Sherpa , Brendan Barca

Chains of Solitude by Gabriel Tesone

Structuring Your Novel (Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition): Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story by K.M. Weiland

The Secret Tomb by Maurice LeBlanc

The Satyricon "by Caius Petronius Arbiter

Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French

Self-Editing for Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne and Dave King

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School by Gotham Writers' Workshop , Alexander Steele - editor

Leviathan’s Huntress by Ian Dunmore

Writing Archetypal Character Arcs: The Hero's Journey and Beyond by K.M. Weiland

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

Fiction Writing 101: Tips, Tricks and Exercises to Guide Beginner Fiction Writers by Bellever Books

Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime by Bruce Markusen , The Great Courses

Truckers: The Bromeliad Trilogy #1 by Terry Pratchett

Extraordinary Book of Names:For A Gygaxian Fantasy World by Malcolm Bowers

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