Book description
'It's impossible to feel the same way about your home and how you furnish it after reading this joyful, revelatory, astounding book.' Olivia Laing'I loved this gorgeous and original book.' Katherine Angel'Marvellous, brilliant, and charming. You won't ever look at your living room in the same way again.' Amelia Horgan'Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living...'In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our homes, and their underlying reality.Living Rooms blends history, theory, and memoir as it moves between the colonial trade in house plants, Proustian reminiscence, and razor-sharp critique of rentier capitalism. Johnson-Schlee suggests that, by looking closely at the places where we live, we can confront political realities that extend out into the world.In the way we furnish our homes, might we be unconsciously imagining a different kind of life? In the way we arrange our sofas, picture frames, and our pot plants, are we dreaming of a better world? And what would it mean to reject the notion that a house should be a commodity, and to embrace the idea of a truly living room?
Shadow Bishop
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Toxic-oxide
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Blink
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WordWanderer
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Troubled Chick
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Mud Pie Man
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Papa Smurf
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Teeder
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Manly
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Bad Princess
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Lady Q
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Sloth
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Jigsaw
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King Bass
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CloudFrenzy
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The Belgian
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The Flying Mouse
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Digital Equinox
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Sexual Chocolate
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Station WMD
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience