Every Wednesday Hallie host a 5 favorites link up on her blog and I love it. Is there a better way to share the latest and greatest? Nope . . . Hallie is the bomb and you all should check her out. AND, heck I am linking up with What Were Reading Wednesday too. Why not. :)
Here are my latest favorites . . .
1 . Amazon you prove yourself to be wonderful AGAIN, you never fail. When you sign up with amazon smile they donate .5% of what you buy to a charity of your choice. I chose St. Gianna's Maternity home in Bakersfield, CA - i'm sure there are many wonderful organizations on there.
2. Librivox. Free audiobooks in the public domain! I can't believe it's taken me this long to find out about Librivox. It's wonderful and I have been in book nerd heaven
since. Some of the readers are professionals, and do a wonderful job. My
two favorite narrators are Karen Savage and Elizabeth Klett. If YOU know any
others please let me know. :) I have downloaded THIS app on my phone so in the evening I can listen to them with headphones while cleaning the house. I haven't done so much cleaning since, well, never. Thank you Librivox. :)
4. Speaking of being a book nerd, I started using Paperbackswap and it's been really fun. I sent off a few of our unwanted books and received a few in exchange. Is there something cooler than that? Here's what we added to our shelf: E.B. White's Treasury for the kids and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for me. I can't wait to delve in. I have Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Professor by Charlotte Bronte coming in the mail for a book club I belong to. SO, if YOU sign up and tell them it was me that sent you then I will get credit for another book. Go sign up. :)
3. I'm tired of Pandora's ads (mostly naked ladies anyone?) so we have been listening to Spotify. It's wonderful! You can listen to any album (at least any I have looked for so far!) and then a streaming station just like Pandora. There are FAR fewer advertisements.
We are going to see the Wailin Jenny's on Thursday and I can't wait. We have been enjoying all their music on spotify.
4. Speaking of Spotify, I discovered some new music through their streaming station and I couldn't wait to share it with someone. You will have to be it. :) Joy Kills Sorrow, fresh out of Boston. I love their name.
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Thanks for sticking around, I probably should be getting on with my laundry or something, maybe a shower would be nice. :) See ya later!
- Sarah
Have fun on Thursday! I discovered the Wailin Jenny's a couple years ago through Pandora (yes, I am tired of the ads).
ReplyDeleteI liked the song from Joy Kills Sorrow. I will have to check out more of their music.
Let me know what you think when you do!
Delete~Have a lovely day!
ReplyDeleteThank you. :)
DeleteThat's great to hear about Amazon! We just started using Amazon Fresh to deliver groceries (select markets) and it's great!
ReplyDeleteOoh, im going to have to look into that Amazon Fresh!
DeleteSo incredibly jealous about your Saturday night plans. THat's been one of my favorite bands for awhile now... enjoy@
ReplyDeleteWe bit the bullet with this one and I am so glad. I haven't been to a concert in, well, I can't remember!
DeleteThanks for all the great tips!
ReplyDeleteI'm late to the non-radio music scene :o) so I recently started Pandora, but I paid for a year of ad-free service. I love it, no complaints at all. Best of all, hubs got for me a wireless Bose speaker to play music in the living room, from the computer in the school room. Been working great!
But I still listen to live AM radio on a old-fashioned battery-operated box.... :o)
:o) Becky
We LOVE our wireless speaker! I got one for Christmas and I would say we use it nearly every day. In the morning during breakfast we put it on the table to listen to audiobooks. I hook it up to my phone so that I don't even have to turn the computer on, it's great!
DeleteI think I'll spend some time looking here!
ReplyDeleteyou make me want to blog again!
ReplyDeleteoh yes, please do!
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