Live Listening Audiobook Club

What to Expect

This is my small live listening experiment built around shared attention, curiosity, and conversation.

Agenda

• Brief welcome and introduction
• Live listening session
• Spontaneous pauses and discussion throughout
• Short wrap-up conversation at the end
• Group vote on whether to continue the current work in two weeks or begin a new one

What to Bring

Just bring yourself, your curiosity, and your attention.

Feel free to bring a drink or snack from the library café area if you'd like.

I’ll be in the café area 30 minutes before the event starts if anyone arrives early and wants to say hello beforehand.

We’ll begin promptly at 2pm and end on the nose at 4pm.

Group Size
Club meetings are intentionally small and limited to seven total attendees, myself included, so the experience stays conversational and interactive.

Because seating is intentionally limited, please only RSVP if you genuinely plan to attend.

If your plans change, simply update your RSVP as early as possible so another listener can take your place.

Location
We’ll meet at the Tempe Public Library, Study Room 7.

Our Listening Experience
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard — an LA Theatre Works full-cast audio performance at 2 hours and 57 minutes.

Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe's influence in our everday lives and ultimate fates through relationships between past and present, order and disorder, and the certainty of knowledge.

Set in an English country house across two time periods (1809–1812 and 1989), the play follows modern scholars investigating the lives of those who lived there nearly 180 years earlier.

Highly praised by Audible listeners for:

• Intellectual complexity
• Layered storytelling
• Brilliant cast performances
• Witty dialogue
• Rich characters
• Clear enunciation

I chose Arcadia for the first experiment because it’s thoughtful, funny, emotionally alive, and filled with exactly the kind of pause-worthy moments this club was built for.