James Masterton has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is Odyssey: One Day in His Courts.
Nonsense
Summary
Edward Lear was an English artist and poet who loved writing nonsense. He is known for popularizing the limerick, a bouncy sort of poem that is often nonsensical and amusing rather than formal or traditional. These poems, stories, and songs are utterly silly, with much of the charm being in the rhythm and rhymes with which they can be read aloud. The Book of Nonsense was anonymously published in 1846, with 72 limericks about all sorts of nonsense subjects, like an old man with a beard full of birds, a volcano scientist whose work gets ironically burnt in a volcano, and a woman whose nose was so long she needed a hired hand to carry it. These poems are nonsensical and silly. Nonsense Songs and Stories was another of Edward Lear’s nonsense publications. Unlike Book of Nonsense, this book consists mainly of longer songs and stories instead of quick limericks. The songs and stories are still silly though, about personified insects and objects, children sailing to islands made of chocolates and talking vegetables. This book contains the author’s personal favorite of his songs: “The Owl and the Pussycat”, about an owl and cat sailing on a boat made of honey and a piece of paper money, exploring the world and falling in love.
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Odyssey: One Day in His Courts
Summary
A collection of 25 poems on faith and OCD. Intrusive thoughts come up with what seems like a million flashing warning lights, like those coming up all at once on a car's faulty dashboard. None of them make sense, but they all feel so real, so personal, yet so alien to the person's heart, nature, and beliefs. Suffering in silence, unable to talk as it feels like no one will understand, or worse, that they will judge harshly, anxiety levels soar; isolation follows, even from God because "he knows". The thing is he does know. Brains glitch. They can be like the car's faulty dashboard. They are not our mind, and they are not our heart. The battle is very real, and the steps taken to overcome must be acknowledged, but the journey was never meant to be travelled alone. These few poems are a prayer voyage toward restored intimacy in the courts of grace and in the safety of one's hiding place, tightly tucked against God's heart, positioned for recovery.
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