7 Audiobooks You Must Hear Now
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3 New Audiobooks You Must Hear Now
At some point not so long ago, our ancestors discovered that they had the leisure time and the intellectual capacity to tell each other stories. These stories may have started as simple entertainment or as attempts to explain the unexplainable, but over time they have grown in complexity. Soon, our stories began to come back …
Audiobooks, Translations, and Other Letters to the Editor
Listen To the editor: As a devoted audiobook listener of literary fiction, I am very disappointed that your audiobook reviews continue to be about nonfiction titles. Is there a reason for this? Sorry if you have a fiction corner I missed, but that would be rare. The latest audiobook reviews (March 13) are more nonfiction. …
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Audiobooks Explain It All To Me
Explaining – the kind that makes you revisit what you already know and marvel at what you don’t – is an art. There is a fine line between instruction and condescension, adequate detail and unnecessary details. While listening to these three new audiobooks, I sometimes felt like the poor soul cornered by a crypto-brother at …
Non-Fiction Audiobooks to Download This Winter
Welcome to the golden age of audiobooks. Maybe it’s because podcasts give us an insatiable thirst for audio storytelling; or because companies like Audible and Libro.fm have made it so easy to create digital listening libraries. Whatever the reason, we finally came to the understanding that no, listening to a book instead of reading a …
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Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Create Your Own Voice
Recently I’ve noticed that audiobooks don’t keep me up at night. It’s not that I can’t devour them in their nocturnal orgies, but I can’t tear myself away. No, because I’m sleepy think so much about some audiobooks. Like a movie watched right before bed or a video game played too much, a good audiobook …
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From Lin-Manuel to Pollan and St. To Aubyn: Audiobooks for Every Consideration
One of the best things about audiobooks is how conducive to multitasking they are. You can learn something new or have fun while sorting the laundry, walking the dog, waiting for the plane. But that same versatility—audiobooks’ ability to recede into the background of everyday life—could also be their downfall. Focus too much on what …
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