Audio"books"

April 18, 2023

Dragonlance vol 1: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (abridged audio"book") Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman.

This is my first audio"book" recording. I have chosen to (poorly)read the Wikipedia synopsis of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy (and the very first Dragonlance novel). Written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, published in 1984. Plot summary plagiarized from the Wikipedia page. I decided to make this podcast so that I could read to my mother and help to keep her spirits up throughout the pandemic. I wanted to avoid stumbling my way through reading an entire book to her over the phone (I would never want to subject anyone to listening to me speak live, or even an unedited recording). My mother had always been a prodigious reader, sometimes buying a new novel every day and finishing it before bedtime. I learned to read relatively late, because I had no interest in children's books. I wanted to read my mom's books, with dragons and hobbits and dinosaurs and wizards and spaceships on their covers (I was furious that these tantalizing tomes were filled with nothing but tiny, incomprehensible hieroglyphics). My mother and I adored the Dragonlance novels. They were some of the first books I ever read. Luckily, they had at least one picture per chapter so I was able to struggle through the entire novel at a young age. My parents even helped me learn how to read by teaching me to play Magic: the Gathering. My mother gave me the life-changing gift of Dragonlance, (and reading in general) so I figured I would try to return the favor. ♥️ (obviously I can't be bothered to record the whole book, I'm not that great of a son). Please pardon the lack of paragraphs and coherent structure in this description. Anchor has an amazing app, with the surprising shortcoming (for creators) of only allowing episode descriptions to be a single paragraph. Through advertising, I earn roughly $0.01 every time someone listens to a full episode and advertisement. Please listen this episode at least 139 times so that I can afford to buy some Pop Rocks. Thanks for listening! ❤️