Books on the Nightstand, Episode 34 (31:25)
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It's finally here. Our long-promised and long-awaited audiobooks episode. We turn the podcast over to you, our listeners and we really want to thank everyone who called in and left us a message:
- Heidi Estrin who writes the great Book of Life podcast
asks the question: does listening to an audiobook count as reading the book?
- Carla Thompson, one of our Goodfriends from Goodreads describes herself as a "blind audio reader and... a book junkie." Narrators are very important to Carla as are detail-filled and fast-paced stories.
- Tanya shares several of her favorite audios and raves about all of the narrators.
- Melissa Klug also loved the narrator of The Thirteenth Tale, an audio Tanya recommended
- Heather Elia, from the Colgate Bookstore, called in with two older titles that still entertain.
- Stanley Hadsell, manager and buyer at Market Block Books recommended The Graveyard Book to me a few months ago. I loved it so much and I'm glad he called in with that recommendation!
- Julie from Minneapolis recommends Barbara Kingsolver reading her own book Prodigal Summer.
- Hope from Australia buys her audios from Audible.com and raves about the versions of several wonderful books she's found there. [Note: We're unsure if those same versions will be available in other countries] Other ways online to get your audios are Emusic.com and Librivox.org.
Ann and I throw in our two cents throughout and recommend several of our favorites along the way.
This call-in format worked so well, we're opening it up to another topic, one suggested by Melissa on Goodreads: Is there a book that you hated when it was assigned in school, but loved when you read it later in life? Call our voicemail line at (206) 350-2068 to share your story.
NOTE: Michael misremembered... John Irving does not read The World According to Garp. Sorry if he got anyone's hopes up!
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