If you follow me on bookstagram you probably already know I LOVE audiobooks.
Let me repeat in case you haven't heard it, I LOVE AUDIOBOOKS.
I have 287 audiobooks on my Audible app and have 30+ more on my laptop. The crazy part is I've listened to more than 200 of those. That's not counting what I check out from the library.
Some people like to turn the pages of a book, they love the smell and the feel of a book.- Me too.
Some people love to be able to carry around a ton of books on various mobile devices.- Me too
And then there are the people like me who love to listen to books.
My love of listening to books started early in life. My parents read to us every night- even as we got old enough to read to ourselves. It was a ritual. Especially when my grandmother who I called Nyen-Nyeh sent us our first Harry Potter book. We had book one a full year before the craze hit the US. My dad would read us a few chapters every night. He read to us through book 3 and then we started to tackle them on our own. We also took a trip to NH every year, which was a 17 hour drive from home. So we would go to the library and pick out a book on tape/cd to listen to in the car. It kept us happy and mostly quiet(I think) for the journey. My parents have all the Harry Potter books on audio and I've listened to all of them with them. It's a cherished memory actually.
If you have young kids and you haven't gotten them hooked on Odds Bodkin you are missing out as a parent. Odds Bodkin is a storyteller who used to come to RDC(Rockywold-Deephaven Camps) when I was young. He plays instruments, does all the voices, and tells the best stories. I was laying in bed thinking about how when I was younger and home sick, I would stick in one of his cassettes and listen to him tell me stories while my dad worked. You can find him at oddsbodkin.net
I purchased a flash drive of my favorite stories from him and received them a few days ago. It was really special to download them to my computer and know that I'll have those memories and stories to pass down to my kids someday. And to be honest, I still love those stories. They remind me of happy times with my family, everyone sitting on the benches in their PJ's listening to Odds Bodkin, and then going back to the cabin for bed.
Audiobooks are amazing. The right narrator and story can take you to worlds you could never experience in ways you couldn't possibly fathom. Many of my favorite audiobooks and narrated by a full cast- meaning each character is narrated by someone different. It really does make a difference.
Some of my favorite audiobooks are:
Paris in Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James- narrated by the author
Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy by Kevin Kwan- narrated by Lynn Chen
Royal Wedding: The Princess diaries by Meg Cabot- narrated by Aruekke DeKuske
The Illuminae Files Trilogy by Jay Kristoff and Aimie Kauffman- narrated by a full cast
The Themis Files Trilog by Sylvain Neuvel- narrated by a full cast
The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi- narrated by Priya Ayyar
Let me repeat in case you haven't heard it, I LOVE AUDIOBOOKS.
I have 287 audiobooks on my Audible app and have 30+ more on my laptop. The crazy part is I've listened to more than 200 of those. That's not counting what I check out from the library.
Some people like to turn the pages of a book, they love the smell and the feel of a book.- Me too.
Some people love to be able to carry around a ton of books on various mobile devices.- Me too
And then there are the people like me who love to listen to books.
My love of listening to books started early in life. My parents read to us every night- even as we got old enough to read to ourselves. It was a ritual. Especially when my grandmother who I called Nyen-Nyeh sent us our first Harry Potter book. We had book one a full year before the craze hit the US. My dad would read us a few chapters every night. He read to us through book 3 and then we started to tackle them on our own. We also took a trip to NH every year, which was a 17 hour drive from home. So we would go to the library and pick out a book on tape/cd to listen to in the car. It kept us happy and mostly quiet(I think) for the journey. My parents have all the Harry Potter books on audio and I've listened to all of them with them. It's a cherished memory actually.
If you have young kids and you haven't gotten them hooked on Odds Bodkin you are missing out as a parent. Odds Bodkin is a storyteller who used to come to RDC(Rockywold-Deephaven Camps) when I was young. He plays instruments, does all the voices, and tells the best stories. I was laying in bed thinking about how when I was younger and home sick, I would stick in one of his cassettes and listen to him tell me stories while my dad worked. You can find him at oddsbodkin.net
I purchased a flash drive of my favorite stories from him and received them a few days ago. It was really special to download them to my computer and know that I'll have those memories and stories to pass down to my kids someday. And to be honest, I still love those stories. They remind me of happy times with my family, everyone sitting on the benches in their PJ's listening to Odds Bodkin, and then going back to the cabin for bed.
Audiobooks are amazing. The right narrator and story can take you to worlds you could never experience in ways you couldn't possibly fathom. Many of my favorite audiobooks and narrated by a full cast- meaning each character is narrated by someone different. It really does make a difference.
Some of my favorite audiobooks are:
Paris in Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James- narrated by the author
Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy by Kevin Kwan- narrated by Lynn Chen
Royal Wedding: The Princess diaries by Meg Cabot- narrated by Aruekke DeKuske
The Illuminae Files Trilogy by Jay Kristoff and Aimie Kauffman- narrated by a full cast
The Themis Files Trilog by Sylvain Neuvel- narrated by a full cast
The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi- narrated by Priya Ayyar
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