Audible has a free audiobook for Valentine’s Day, and I don’t even think I can fully describe the amount of awesome contained herein.
Audible Studios has released a free collection of classic love poems narrated by Richard Armitage. Included in the audiobook are the works of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, John Keats, Robert Browning, Christopher Marlowe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, e.e. cummings, Lord Byron, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more.
YES. I KNOW. RICHARD ARMITAGE WANTS TO READ YOU POETRY.
Here. Have a sample, e.e. cummings’ i carry your heart:
You ok? Need a minute?
Take your time.
Wow. I think I will have to rewatch North & South (for about the 100th time) this weekend. Richard Armitage is just wonderful.
…and after N&S, try Armitage doing the audiobook of Georgette Heyer’s “Venetia”.
Wow, did I download that *so fast*.
YAY! New bathtub soundtrack. My Ron Perlman “Beauty and the Beast” tape is getting decidedly wobbley.
Is that not fabulous?? It just made my whole day!
Oh, can I add to this by recommending “When Love Speaks,” too?
https://www.radainbusiness.com/watch-listen/listen-when-love-speaks
http://www.amazon.com/When-Love-Speaks/dp/B00006357N
Famous UK actors and musicians doing Shakespeare’s sonnets. Music by Annie Lennox, Bryan Ferry, Rufus Wainwright. Recitations from Alan Rickman, Joseph Fiennes, Kenneth Brannagh, Thelma Holt.
It just makes my toes curl, all those lovely, lovely voices…
Well, okay, as long as he doesn’t want to read me William Blake…
I dunno, I think hearing this from him could be pretty sweet:
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Well, now I’m swooning at my desk.
Completely off topic but I just realized that ‘Bite Me’, Shelly Laurenston’s latest in the Pride Series is FREE right now!
(I paid full price when it came out *single tear*)
That moment in the finale of the “Vicar of Dibley” where he looks at Dawn French and tells her he wants to marry her… I have it as a gif. Downloading this immediately.
I don’t really like audiobooks…Richard Armitage…click. I’ll be in my bunk. 😉
JaneL – oh, no objections to tigers, it’s the (spoiler) part I’d rather avoid.
(Just to clarify: the Armitage/Blake combination is something I – and a bunch of other people – will have to deal with quite a lot in the near future. For the fandom-related reasons. So I’m kind of relieved he doesn’t read any Blake on this audiobook. I’m not morally ready for that.)
Oh. I need a cigarette. I should go lie down before I faint.
@DonnaMarie:
I LOVE that Beauty and the Beast soundtrack SO MUCH. I’m so glad to know I’m not alone.
Tom Hiddleston did one, too: may i feel, said he (also by cummings)
Thank you!!!
Oh my giddy aunt. That was so… chocolatey.
I can haz him narrating my audiobooks pls?