Two different holiday media things.

[dira]

1) Have some Christmas type music!

I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek (I found this online somewhere--the file info says the artist is "The Go-Gos", but I don't actually know if that's accurate. Anyone know what the provenance of this is?)

And assorted awesome people singing in French:
Bruce Cockburn - Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes
Josh Groban - Petit Papa Noel
Annie Lennox - I'l Est Ne Le Divin Enfant

If you are looking for holiday music that is not in French or concerned with Daleks, feel free to ask! I have lots, and if I happen to have something you're looking for I'd love to hook you up. If you have some you'd like to share, please post a suitable sort of link!


2) So I have this eight-hour solo drive to my parents' house coming up in a couple of weeks (ETA: by which I mean a week from Wednesday. I ... really need to get on my Christmas shopping. o.O), and though I generally do not listen to audiobooks or podfic (I have the right combination of attention span and auditory processing fail to just ... zone out a lot) I have been stricken with the impulse to try again. Specifically, I'd like to listen to some audio non-fiction. (Yes! Yes I do know about the audiobook of One Bullet Away read by the author. I am just not ready for that particular... thing.)

Anyway, so--recs for engaging non-fiction audiobooks? I mostly read pop history and pop science, I think--not memoir or biography as much--but I'm a generally inquisitive person, so if you have something awesome to recommend I'd like to hear about it!

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[celli]

I have mad love for Devil in the White City, book and audiobook. It's got some elements of biography in it, but it's Chicago porn and has a serial killer involved, so. :)

There are two versions - I can't remember who reads the unabridged, although he's good, but the abridged is Tony Goldwyn.

[dira]

Oooh, I will make a note of that.