June is Audiobook month and Jen at Devourer of Books is hosting Audiobook Week for the 4th year.I am an avid listener of audiobooks and love this yearly event. Due to my home renovations and daughter's wedding preparations, my participating will be minimal this year.
Tuesday asks: How do You Choose Your Audiobooks? How do you decide what you’ll listen to? Do you mostly listen, or split time between listening and reading? Particularly if you split time, how do you decide what you’ll consume in audio and what in print?
I choose many audiobooks based on narrators. There are a few narrators that I will listen to no matter the genre of book. If a book sounds like it will translate well, I will give it a try on audio Books that alternate between past and present take concentration so I find that they are better listened to when I can give complete attention to them. I always have about 3-4 audiobooks going at one time. One in the bathroom, kitchen, car and on my iPod. Sometimes, when I have a complicated plot audiobook, I will get the book in print too. I would not recommend a new to audiobook listener to have more than 1 audiobook going at a time. It took a bit to be able to keep the books I listen to straight in my head!
Thursday asks: Audiobook Tasks What do you do while you listen? Any particular tasks or games that you find amazing for audio time? I always listen while getting ready for the day in the bathroom. I usually have something lighter in the bathroom. I listen in the kitchen. I listen in the car. I have a book or two on the iPod that I listen to as I exercise, clean, do yard work, laundry, and yes I even listen at work!
Last year some of my favorite audiobooks were:
Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin narrated by Roy Dotrice
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash narrated by Lorna Raver, Mark Bramhall, and Nick Sullivan
Defending Jacob by William Landy narrated by Grover Gardner
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penny narrated by Dan Stevens
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach narrated by Holter Graham
I also listened to four books historical/regency narrated by Susan Duerden that I absolutely loved.
So far this year I have listened to 17 audiobooks.
10 comments:
Still a little confusing for me, I must be old. One book at a time. Audio has not worked for me to date,but I'm trying, really.
You've read a lot of audio books. I like seeing your reviews and always add some of these to my list:)
I want to listen to both A Land More Kind Than Home and The Invisible Ones. It's pretty impressive that you can have 3 or 4 going at the same time!
I almost always have one audiobook going in my car and another going on my phone.
I used to listen to two audiobooks at a time, but now just do one at a time on either the iPod or phone and carry it around on my person whenever possible!
I only have one audiobook going at a time, but I can't listen in the car.
good point on the alternating past/present issue!
The Art of Fielding was EXCELLENT.
Whew! I don't know how you can do so many at once though it makes it convenient to have audio is all the different rooms! I'm a monogamous reader so audio tends to be my compromise with multireading--but they do have to be very different from one another!
Wow! You have books going everywhere!!! I have many of your favorites in my audio library!! I'm currently listening to #10 which is an all-time high for me!
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