listening – Abby Murphy

The Audio Files

April 9, 2018April 7, 2018 Abby Murphy

Lately I've been nostalgic for books. It feels like forever and an age since I got to curl up on the couch and sink into a book, and so I've been pining for the days of new parenthood, when weirdly I read more consistently than I do now. Ah, for that twilight haze of chaos… Continue reading The Audio Files

books, feminism, listening

A Podcast, You Say? Oh, Witch, Please!

October 23, 2017October 26, 2017 Abby Murphy

After years of my sister telling me all about her favorite podcasts and me nodding and saying I'll listen to them but forgetting to look them up, I finally got into them. And by "them" I really mean one in particular: Witch, Please, a podcast about Harry Potter, radical feminism, and literary analysis. YES. Witch, Please… Continue reading A Podcast, You Say? Oh, Witch, Please!

books, listening, movies, some of my favorites, tv shows

It’s Elementary

February 19, 2017 Abby Murphy

Lately I've been indulging in an orgy of Sherlock. Not just the BBC show (although we recently finished the third episode of the latest season, and MAN was that dark), but books and radio dramas, too. Modern adaptations, stories that play the Game - I'm soaking it all up. Maybe it's due to the current political… Continue reading It’s Elementary

20th century, britain, listening

By Timothy!

May 7, 2014August 5, 2014 Abby Murphy

I really like to listen to stories while I cook. Sometimes it's books on tape (Jim Dale narrating Harry Potter? check!), sometimes it's NPR, and lately it's been dramatized mysteries. My sister and I grew up listening to dramatized Agatha Christie books and the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes radio plays from the 1940s, so much… Continue reading By Timothy!