the thing about audio books

I like audio books for when I'm driving or knitting. I particularly love the ones for the Bloody Jack series. The voice actress is brilliant--she does the different voices and accents, she captures Jacky's way of speaking perfectly, and she even sings the songs. But...I'm listening to the audio book for My Bonny Light Horseman and problems have ensued. When you're reading a book, if you get to something you don't like it's fairly easy to skip over. When you're listening to an audio book, it's something else altogether. Hearing disturbing scenes read out loud is a lot different than seeing the words on a page. ( major spoilers for this particular book as an example )

I just don't want to hear it. I'm trying to decide whether or not to power through or skip ahead several tracks on the CDs. I also encountered this problem when I was listening to White Cat by Holly Black, only in that case I hadn't read the book yet so I couldn't bring myself to skip ahead on the audio book. ( more spoilers )

So yeah, I like audio books as a general rule, and I love the ones for Bloody Jack (and The Dark is Rising Sequence because holy shit, those are awesome) but I'm still frozen on listening to any more at this time.

yuletide?

I'm trying to decide whether or not I feel like doing Yuletide this year. I've only registered for it once but it was fun writing for the Madness last year. (Part of the reason I didn't sign up last year was because the nominating and registering processes sounded more complicated than in the past.) Fandoms I'm considering so far:

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
Princess Tutu
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
Utena
The Keeper's Chronicles by Tanya Huff