narrators

i am writing about books again because that's where i spend a lot of time. if you don't like it, feel free to comment with suggestions of things you'd like me to write about.

i started to listen to "the running grave" - robert galbraith's most recent book, but realized i needed a solid catch-up, so i reversed to troubled blood which i'll follow with "ink black heart" and only then will i be ready for "the running grave".

the narrator of these books is robert glenister. he's definitely in my top picks, narrators that i look for regardless of book genre. this group includes: 

• wil wheaton - ready player one (ernest cline), dancing barefoot (wheaton)
• robert bathurst - inspector gamache series (louise penny)
• jayne entwistle - flavia de luce series (alan bradley)
• tom taylorson - joe gunther series (archer mayor); surrender, new york (caleb carr); plus one (christopher noxon)
• jim dale - harry potter (jk rowling)
• will patton - raven cycle, dreamer trilogy (maggie stiefvater), when zachary beaver came to town (kimberly willis holt), train dreams (denis johnson)

there are certain qualities of voice which are intolerable to me (see: misophonia) and other qualities which are likely to put me to sleep (see: asmr). and then there re voices which hit the sweet spot between the two.

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old words that sound like new words.

britomart is the name of a nymph of greek mythology and a character in edmund spenser's "the faerie queene".  it also sounds like a 7/11 specializing british foods.

metacomet is a 17th century indian chief and sounds like a robot or rocketship. 

you got any?