"SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters."
"Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth."
Time and the Gods (1906)
Lord Dunsany was born #OTD in 1878. "Time and the Gods", his second book, is considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. via @wikipedia
This time I decided to draw a #sheep and use gradients despite not being very comfortable with them 🙈 The audiobook is "Catalogs to sleep by" a collection of texts aimed at helping you.. to #sleep! 💤
LibriVox is such an amazing service! One of those rare "this is what the internet was made for"/"humanity at its best" services that there's not that many of.
But the fact that you can not sort the books by popularity kinda baffles my mind.
There's a big range of quality of sound and narration skills when you let anyone at all be an audiobook narrator. Seeing the most popular books could help you find a good one.
Of possible interest, especially now for #BlackHistoryMonth. These are part of the #WPA recordings of former slaves (you know, back when the US Gov. did some seriously useful stuff).