I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin became available on Overdrive on the same day. I have to grab one and delay checking out the other.
Why don’t I checkout both you ask? Great question. The problem I’ll run into with checking out both is that extending a loan audiobook is hit or miss where it’s mostly miss. It’s more simple for me to delay checking out a title for 7 or 14 days that it is for me to gamble that I’ll be able to ask for an extension on the second title once I’ve finished the first.
There’s no benefit in checking out both together because I’ll only read one at a time and extending a loan is sometimes not an option because of the length of the waiting list. Why isn’t the waiting list a factor when you’re allowing to delay checking out a title? Another good question! I have no idea, but I appreciate the feeling of having that cheat code.
Deciding which audiobook to read
I really want to refresh my knowledge of the Targaryen‘s, but the book is so damn long — 26 hours and 24 minutes to be exact. It’s a little bit of a marathon, but damned it’s good!
I, Robot has the short stories that lead me into becoming obsessed with Asimov’s works. To be honest, his is the kind of future dreaming sci-fi I want to write. It’s inspiring and spins my creative wheels.
I’m going to grab I, Robot and dive back into the imagined future world of autonomous and questionably sentient machines. I’ll put off checking out Fire & Blood for 7 days being fully aware that I should extend it for 14 days (I’ll want to read I, Robot through twice…call it a thing I have with even numbers…who knows). I think I knew I would go with I, Robot: I’m more attached to robots and short stories than I am to incest and highborns.
Also, the timing is perfect because tomorrow night I finish The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis — a genuinely good read with a great pace.
