For audiobooks I use Libby with two different library cards, Hoopla, and Everand. Between the three I pretty much always have something to listen to.

For digital reading, I have a Kobo E-reader and depending on which library card I use, it’s either through Overdrive (which is Libby), or Cloud Library (which requires me to transfer books from there to Adobe Digital Editions, then to my Kobo). That last bit sounds more annoying than it actually is.

O wow you unlocked fond memories of my Medieval Literature class in college! My professor was able to read/perform Middle English so he would often bring whatever we were reading to life. I just pulled Piers Plowman off my shelf, as your post inspired me. Of course it’s a Norton Critical Edition, but it is also the Donaldson translation - just different editors.

If this time period is interesting for you, I also remember covering Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Gawain and the Green Knight, and Boccaccio’s The Decameron. I happen to love the latter. I pulled it out during lockdown, as it seemed appropriate (i.e. plague).

Thistlefoot by Genna Rose Nethercott. I was so disappointed because I was expecting a whimsical retelling of Baba Yaga. Instead I got metaphor about how Fox News plays on the fears of its viewers. Every character was unlikeable and I didn’t care what happened to any of them. Many social issues were shoe-horned into the story which felt more like a check list being ticked off as opposed to organic. Magic was an afterthought. I get what Nethercott was trying to do, it just came off clunky and…juvenile, maybe? Like when an author uses a lot of big words and adjectives to show you how deep/poetic/smart they are. I just wanted more fun, house on chicken legs magic. It’s fine the author wanted to do something different than expected. I just don’t agree she achieved it. I tried both book and audiobook and DNF’d at about 30/40% with each.