2019: I skipped listening to this one the last couple of years, so it's with great delight that I've returned to it for the "Sleepy Hollow" square on my bingo card. My 2016 and 2013 updates are below. As an aside, the new boy that I mention in the 2014 updates is now my daughter's fiancee and will...
This is the first I’ve ever read Ichabod Crane’s original story, and it was surprisingly funny, especially as read by the wonderful Tom Mison in this Audible Original performance. Ichabod is wonderfully drawn with his ridiculous appearance and unconscious arrogance and hubris, so that I can still fe...
A re-read (re-listen) for me in honour of the upcoming holiday and Halloween Book Bingo. I still think the writing is set at maximum verbosity, but since I was expecting it this time, I was able to enjoy the story a bit more and pick up on more of the wry humour. The narrator is excellent. Thi...
I loved the narration of this story. Tom Mison (the actor from the Sleepy Hollow television show) narrates this book and I could seriously listen to his voice all day long. Unfortunately, I didn't liked the actual story as much as I thought I would. I really wish the story was a bit darker and ...
I never had the occasion to read this story but picked it up on Audible a couple months ago. I liked it and am happy that I can now say that I've read (listened) to it.
I meant to listen to this at Halloween. That didn't work, so I decided to listen to it now as I wanted something short. Let me start by saying Tom Mison does a brilliant job with the narration. His voice is so smooth and gorgeous to listen to. But that proved to be a double edged sword. It was...
I had my William Shakespeare's Collected Works (the one from the Royal Shakespeare Company) ready to read along. It was really helping to look at the footnote of each sonnet, because several word meanings would have been completely lost to me otherwise. It was very educating and helped tremendously ...