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Audiobook Catch-Up 2024 | S4E12
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This week we discuss our current audiobook listening habits, our favorite (and least favorite) narrators, and share some new recommendations!
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Introduction to Audiobooks
00:00:06
Speaker
Hey, guys. Welcome to Bring Your Own and I'm Kayla. And today we are talking audiobooks, which we kind of talk a little bit about audiobooks every single time we talk because we love audiobooks. But we're going to dedicate an entire episode for the first time since season one to audiobooks. We're excited. this This will be fun because, like Brandi said, we haven't talked about it in
Podcast Evolution and Memories
00:00:32
Speaker
so long. And like first of all, if you've never listened to season one,
00:00:36
Speaker
Don't go back. It's okay. You really don't have to. You don't see the one so much. I had so much fun with that. I know we have so much fun too. It just sounds really bad. Yes. It's just cringy to go back and listen to now. It's cake.
00:00:53
Speaker
Yeah, it's just just going back now, just seeing how far we've come. It's definitely nice. But you know, it's just one of those things where you look back and you're like, Oh, my God. Yeah. If we hated it that much, we delete the episodes. We don't. Oh, yeah. No, I would never in our hearts. Yeah. This one's a little bit different, too, because last time we brought specific audio books like we each talked about one.
Current Reads and Drinks
00:01:12
Speaker
And I think this one, you know, we'll talk about a multitude of many and multitude of many, just a multitude.
00:01:22
Speaker
Before we get started, what are we reading? What are we drinking? Can I go first? You may. Okay, I am drinking a black tea. I've gotten kind of into tea, you guys. Wow. What's your mug? Like what's on it?
00:01:37
Speaker
my cat from home my mom printed his faces all over it his name is Leo I love him so much my old man he's like 16 oh yeah so I've been enjoying like a black tea in the mornings because Daniel found this tea that has like extra tea oil in it. So it's like triple caffeine of what a normal black tea is. So I'm like, that sounds good. yeah So that's what I'm having for my drink. And then the reason I want going to go first is because you guys I started a Chain of Iron this morning.
00:02:08
Speaker
ah i It's so good. I am on my last Shadowhunters series before I'm caught up and just waiting for Wicked Powers.
00:02:20
Speaker
It's so good. I'm having so much fun. I got the audios on Libby. I'm listening to that. And then I am still beta reading people watching by Hannah Bonham Young. And I'll probably finish that today or tomorrow. It's a really I'm, I'm excited for your rankings when you're all said and done. I'm excited. Like, that's like a time and you know, not China, China, China is a time. China is still good, but then you get a little fatigued.
00:02:48
Speaker
I'd like knew a lot of the stuff that was going to be happening in this series because way before, I like told Kendra, I was like, there's zero chance I'm reading the rest of the Shadowhunter series. Just like tell me everything. So we had talked about it. I've forgotten a lot. But also, there's so much I didn't know. I'm just having so much fun. Love. Love. Kendra, what about you? By the way, Kendra, you look very nice today. I just want to say that. Oh, thank you. You look, I don't know what it is. You just look nice today. Thank you. You're welcome. I appreciate it.
00:03:17
Speaker
um Okay.
Audiobook Habits and Preferences
00:03:25
Speaker
I am just wearing a dress and that's it. I don't know, like your hair looks really, I don't know. I like like the bun situation. It looks nice. Thank you. I showered this morning. so
00:03:41
Speaker
I am drinking a Hawaiian Shaved Ice Alani Nu. I thought you were going to stop at Hawaiian Shaved Ice. I was like, where did you get a shaved ice from? No, no, it's it's flavored Hawaiian Shaved Ice. Okay, fun. I'm listening to you again by Kate Goldbeck for the second time. I think it's a really good fall book and yeah i'm almost done i'll probably finish it today i could have finished it yesterday i just you know i didn't want to listen to anything yesterday except music so i say that on an audiobook episode i didn't want to listen to my audiobook yesterday yeah that's it it i just have water today i've been feeling really like
00:04:18
Speaker
sickly lately and i feel like it's just also me being a little dehydrated so uh need to hydrate and then i am on the last book of the ember and the ashes series by sabat to here i know i've been having a really really good time though so it's called a sky beyond the storm and i've been like kind of mixing doing the ebook and the audio version between the two but there was a hold for the ebook so I just did the audio or I am currently doing the audio. I also have the physicals but
00:04:51
Speaker
I've mostly been doing like the e-book because I want to highlight in there and and stuff like that, but I'm really enjoying them. They're so good. Having such a great time. I don't even know what that's about. I can picture the OG covers though, like with this guy and the girl. and Yeah, yeah i mean I had no idea either. but it's You don't want to hear me butcher the explanation. So it's just kind of a lot. But but it's really, really good. I I feel like I've never I've seen the book around a lot, but I had never really seen the series like really actually talked about like what you're saying. can You're like, you didn't know what it was about. Yeah, I had no idea what I would see it in like like those videos that are like amazing fantasy series. And then like people would hold it up. I've never seen somebody be like, this is what this book. Yeah, and i know exactly.
00:05:38
Speaker
Exactly one those like where you have to keep it under locking key. Like is that why? No, it's just like If I, if I say it, it's just like, it's going to sound so uninteresting. There's just so many elements surrounding it. It's basically about, you know, an empire that is the ruling class over a bunch of these. ah They're called scholars and there's the ruling class has these people called the masks and they literally wear like Phantom of the Opera type masks. Think of it like that.
Increasing Audiobook Consumption
00:06:09
Speaker
And they're there, which are basically children trained from very young age to be
00:06:15
Speaker
you know this their army it sounds so stupid but just like trust me it so it's okay um but yeah i've been really really enjoying that so that's currently what i'm reading and not reading anything else at the moment um yeah amazing let's all let's get started okay
00:06:35
Speaker
First, let's just start by talking about our stats for the year. Because if you've listened to pretty much any episode of the podcast, like at all, then you know that we love audiobooks here. we That is, I think, the majority of how we read so many books for most of us. I think it's pretty much the same story for everybody. The majority of the books that we consume are audiobooks in a year.
00:07:01
Speaker
So guys, how many audiobooks have you read this year versus how many you've read total? 81% of my reads have been audiobooks. Wow. A huge part of that it was because of my summer job because in June and July, I read one singular fis book, physical book. So the rest were audio. I've read 125 audiobooks this year.
00:07:27
Speaker
wow that's yeah impressive wow it's a lot of my 154 yeah 125 have been audio wow kendra well this might be like off by one or two because like a betas and stuff i haven't put on storygraph but i've read 133 books on my storygraph um and then 66 percent of that has been audio which is 88 audiobooks but i think that no that would be right because i think no i don't know that might be because sometimes because sometimes when you like do like an audio arc it's not own story grab so i have to like log it as like i different i need to go yeah like but before the year's over i need to like make sure um
00:08:10
Speaker
But yeah, I think that's pretty accurate. Almost exactly two thirds. I feel like that makes sense. Well, because then digital is like 24% and then print is 10%. I've read 13 physical books this year. And most of them were hard to stop for comics. My digital is 12%. My print is 7%. Very little. Kayla Ann?
00:08:33
Speaker
I have read 136 books this year. Of that 136, 82 were audiobooks and 60% were audiobooks total. And then I've read 31% digital and 9% print. So yeah, that's my split. Nice. Have your guys' audiobook habits changed since the last time we talked about audiobooks?
DNF Dilemmas and Narrator Preferences
00:08:57
Speaker
I listen to more I think then every year I go up more and I'm more I think I don't know I want to say I'm more open but sometimes I'm not but because I didn't have been listening to more like I think the last time we did this I was very like if it's these people and it's this type of book like I'll do it on audio but now I'm like If it's on audio, like, thank God, like, I don't wanna, I know. Sometimes there's so much effort, like, I'm gonna get the fucking, like, book police out, but like, it's so much effort, like, holding my Kindle or holding a physical book, like, I just wanna listen, like, that's it, like, I don't wanna use my eyeballs. Yup.
00:09:35
Speaker
Yeah, I feel that way. I don't know that my habits have really changed because I still like use audiobooks the same way as in like if I'm cleaning or if I'm doing a hobby that i that doesn't require a lot of brain activity. you know I don't feel like my habits have changed that much. and Yeah, maybe I am also like more open. There's like a couple of narrators that are on my never list. Same. But I don't know. I feel like I'm pretty open. I don't hate Teddy Hamilton as much as Kendra does. Oh, yeah, I hate him, but I still listen to like two books that he did this year. i oh You listen to one by him this month.
00:10:18
Speaker
so all right no no you didn't just kidding for some reason i was thinking he did lost in lasso no he did not thank god he did not he did the last book yeah which i listened to this year too yeah but he can do those books he can do those books that's fine it's everything else you said get him out of the city yeah do like it actually pains me like you are a voice actor you're telling me you can only do that fucking accent like drop it
00:10:47
Speaker
Anyways, Rosie and Kayla? He belongs in Wyoming, in Texas, Montana. Small towns, like, stop. Brittany, I hope your habits change. I can talk about Patty Hamilton all day. Mine have not changed a ton, I don't think. I still prefer audiobooks. They are my preferred means of reading a book. I would say that almost 100% of the books that I have physically read this year either did not have an audiobook or the audiobook had not come out yet.
00:11:23
Speaker
Right. So okay there are like some series like I'll never read a Magnolia Park's book on audio first, so you know what I mean? like That'll always be like a reread thing. um So there are some, but I will say that something I have noticed about since school started this year, I have way more people I like as co-workers this year so I'm listening to a lot less audiobooks at work which is fine it's good it's good I need to touch grass sometimes you know but I used to like get to work out like put my headphones in anytime there were not children in my room that I was actively teaching headphones in
00:11:57
Speaker
head down like working on something listening to an audio book whereas this year like I have friends and if we have the same prep like we'll hang out and I eat lunch with people so that's good but it has yeah that's nice it's good I just have been finishing less audiobooks which again is fine yeah I don't know if we talked about this in the last episode like our speeds I think that's changed for me oh oh my god yes this speed it was acted the fuck up yeah I think anything less so Listen, we love this program so much. We're all very proud and happy to be a part of it. PRH Audio on their app. For those who don't know, they only let you go up to 2x speed, which is the most, like, annoying grading thing. Because. To you. Yes, because I listen to Shadowhunters this year on Libby, I was able to bump my listening speed up to like 250, 275, honestly, if I need to like
00:12:53
Speaker
And that's why I love audiobooks because you can vary the speed at which you are reading listening to something. Yeah, however fast your brain is moving that day is how this book can go. So my preferred speed, yeah, is 2.5 to 2.75. Holy shit. Is that what you started?
00:13:08
Speaker
I start at 2.5 yeah well it depends on the accent too sometimes I have to like if they're British or something I have to bump it down they speak too quick yeah but once I get used to their voice I can bump it up like fine and understand them but I'm the same I start at 2.5 these days and I like right now I'm listening to Chain of Iron on 2.75 but when I'm listening to an audiobook to fall asleep, which like anytime Daniel's traveling and I'm like by myself, I listen to an audiobook to fall asleep, and I have to lower that down to like 1.7, 1.8. Otherwise it's too fast. Not call me.
00:13:46
Speaker
I don't remember what I said my starting speed was at the beginning of last year. You used to do I don't know if it was 1.4 at that point, it might have still been, but I do now start at at least a 1.6.
00:14:03
Speaker
1.7, 1.6 is usually where I start. um i i what Why we laughing? i was low yeah I was laughing at the fact that when I was listening to One Star Romance on PRH, I texted you guys and I was like, listening to this on 2.0 speed is torture. And you said torture is crazy. It is crazy. um But yeah, because I am the type of person who my brain can't process spoken word as fast as I can process written word. So when I have been doing an immersive read, for example, of the Ember and the Asha series, if I am looking at the words while also listening, I bumped that up to like 2.6 because I can do both. You're flying, yeah. Yeah, so that's, yeah, my brain just processes written words so much faster. That's usually what I do, but if I am, you know,
00:14:58
Speaker
not enjoying the book as much as I would like to then I usually bump it up to 2.0 or higher depending upon what the app allows so that's my favorite thing to do oh my god question I'm like hating it I'm like i just get this done that's so interesting because okay so then question do you guys think that you have a harder time DNFing audiobooks versus physical books Yes. Yes. It's like it was an audio book. I'm like, I can just get like I can get through it. I can do something else while I'm listening to it. Physical book, if I'm not enjoying it, DNF like goodbye. I mean, I was going to look at my DNF stats. I'm not that great of a DNF, or to be honest with you, but I just wanted to like look at the DNF stats and see if they were
Notable Narrators
00:15:41
Speaker
like mostly physical versus audio. A lot of DNF. They don't even. Oh, I did DNF and audio. The last one I did.
00:15:49
Speaker
and I'm so sorry to anyone who enjoyed this book because I did see a few of my mutuals who really liked it. It was that Name Your Price book by Holly James. I got it on PRH. It was just so boring. Again, probably if you could have pumped it up to 2.75, you probably i would have finished it. But it was just one of those things where I kept waiting. Like it was just like they were talking in circles and I was just oh drag. The last audiobook I DNF or almost DNF but didn't, the one that I bumped up to 3.0 speed. That is the type of book when people say they hate the miscommunication trope. That is the fucking book. Like the everything they were saying to each other, we knew.
00:16:27
Speaker
that they were taking it the wrong way and like it was the whole book it wasn't even just a third act i was like oh my god oh wait i dnf'd oh i forgot about it It was on Libra FM, the wreck my plans like holiday book. I started it because Samantha Brentmore was doing it. The FMC, you see there are certain things that a good narrator can't save. The FMC did this thing where she listed all of the things that she would do for Taylor Swift. like I would like carry her coat, I'm paraphrasing so I forget, but it was like I carry her coat, I do this, I do that.
00:17:04
Speaker
you are 30 and single and that is the reason why like please please please please ah like that was just so like and the book is called Wreck My Plan so like obviously it was like meant for the Swifties but it just like I can't that was not for me. I've only DNF'd I soft DNF'd an audiobook earlier this year that I do plan on returning too which is because I wasn't in the right headspace for The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black Oh, I need to read that still. Yeah, I was not. I didn't remember anything from The Stolen Air, so I was just like so confused and so like, oh, what is going on? So I'm going to read The Stolen Air eventually and then go back. So that was a very soft DNF. But I DNF'd one audiobook this year, and it was a historical audiobook called Fear and Fortitude by Sherry Champagne. And that one was just a tough lesson.
00:17:59
Speaker
um I have DNF'd two audiobooks this year, Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca, which oh yeah unfortunately I really was so bored. And then Same Situation with Isabelle and the Rogue um by Liana de la Rosa, which I really i enjoyed the first book ah in the series and I'm trying to remember.
00:18:23
Speaker
No, yeah, i did ah I did the ebook for that one. But this one was, yeah, again, boring. Boring. I just didn't feel like doing the legwork of just bumping it up and, you know, forcing you sticking it out. Yeah. So we all have our favorite narrators that we've talked about many times on this podcast. You know, Zachary Weber, Jason Clark,
00:18:48
Speaker
Samantha Brentmore, Julia Whelan, et cetera. But are there any new favorites recently or any new ones that you avoid? We've talked about Teddy Hamilton, but any, and if he's in the city, if he's in the city, but are there any new ones that you love or ones that you've decided are on your never listened list?
00:19:07
Speaker
yes new ones let me start by saying i think we need better male narrators all around like yeah there's zachary weber and then there's everyone else like i i don't think there's a single male narrator that i'm like um for me sorry don't shoot me that i think can do that can do what he does Unfortunately, yeah, like there are good ones, but he's like, great, like he he can do a lot. I will he's agree with you there. You can tell when that man is phoning it in these days, but even in his phone in is better than like a lot of other male narrators like best days. I think what Zachary Weber does so well that i I kind of agree with you because I do I do think that there are great narrators like obviously I think Jason Clark is, you know, great or
00:19:56
Speaker
I really, really, really like Connor Crace. But I think what zach what separates Zachary is that he is so good at not only doing his character's voice, but other characters' voices, like especially if it's like meant to be a funny scene. like I think all the time of the scene in Savorite, when they're in the town hall and like they're arguing amongst all the townspeople, or like when heever whenever he does Abby him in his funny scenes, you know like those types of moments I think are what separates him a lot.
00:20:26
Speaker
from other characters. For me, it's not even like the funny moments, it's like the angsty moments. Sure, it's any moment. Yeah. Because he actually has like versatility. Anyways, but the only other male that I like recently, who I've only ever listened to one book of his, but he has a very extensive like backlist. He did Love at First Sight by Cara Bassone, Santino Fontana. So tell me why I looked him up.
00:20:52
Speaker
And he did, let me double check that I'm not about to lie. Okay, I'm not. He did the song word and snakes, Hunger Games. So I'm like, okay, resume like that's amazing. He did you the the book version of the TV show. I've heard his voice then because I listened to the audio book. So I'm like, okay, we need you like in more because you are really good. um I don't know what his female voice sounds like because love at first like I care about stone was duet narration, but he's probably the only other male narrator that I'm like, okay, like that was a really good performance. You guys want to hear what was just crazy? Cause I was like looking at my list. I like wrote down a list of like recent audios that I've really loved. And I was trying to think like, okay, who else do I like as a male narrator? And I was thinking, Oh my God, obviously I loved wisteria this year. Who was the male narrator? Who was the narrator for that? It was literally just Christina.
00:21:46
Speaker
She killed it, but she's great though. So yeah, I was incorrect. But I do think that the but I'm listening to, like, again, I've said 100,000 times this episode already um with the Ember in the Ashes series, I think that that Narration is really great. Steve West is his name. I was trying to find his name. Everybody in this series has like an accent, like a British accent, but he does a really good job. But I'm like literally trying to, like looking at my list of books, they're like almost all done by one person, except for a couple, which were done by Zachary Weber or somebody else. So like, it's just hard to find good male narrators. You're right.
00:22:25
Speaker
Yeah, just male. But women, I have two. Okay. That I'm like obsessed with if they do it. Like I will listen to it that I haven't talked about before. Kristin Dimicurio, I think is phenomenal. Literally if there's a queer person or it's written in third person, she's your girl. Like she's so good. I know queer book hates to see her coming. No, like she eats it up. She does such a good job. Like she's doing you again by Kate Goldbeck, which is like,
00:22:54
Speaker
for one special because Ari's queer and it's written in third person and she does all of actually hearing Blake's books which she's again a two for one special because they're all queer and they're all written in third person and then Kristin C who I also think goes by Hathaway Lee Yes. Oh, is that her? Okay. Yeah. I love her. I love her. They are like phenomenal. I love them so much ah because half the way Lee, she did business or pleasure, but yes that's what I'm thinking of. And she did smart women by Judy Bloom, which is an audio book I just did recently. Um, she had, she had to play like fucking four different people in that. It was written in third person, but like the way she like, I don't know, she did really good. And then she's the art of catching feelings, but Alicia Thompson, which again,
00:23:37
Speaker
shitty trope but it's a <unk> good book. I gave it 3.5 stars but it's a good book. She also did Funny You Should Ask by Lisa Sussman and Hank Green's books. Yeah. Not to be confused with his brother John Green. Yeah. I mean but John Green gets like good narrators too. I forget the narrator of Turtles All the Way Down but she like killed it.
00:23:59
Speaker
For male narrators, the only ones that I've really added to my list that I'm obsessed with are, or like not even obsessed with, I would not say I'm obsessed with these people, but like people that I'm like, oh, like I know it's gonna be done well. Connor Crace, I can't remember if we he was on our list at that point last time that we talked about audio books, but I don't think so. He's good. And also Ewan Morton, I liked his voice a lot. He's British, very fun.
00:24:27
Speaker
People who have been moved into my will not listen list for male narrators, I can't remember, Sebastian York was already there. I think I was still putting up with his mediocre ass last time we talked about it. I will
Importance of Direction and Understanding
00:24:38
Speaker
not listen to a Sebastian York audiobook ever again in my life. I listened to you one last year because I wanted to read that series so bad and i it was God of Malice. God of Malice.
00:24:49
Speaker
The way that that man sounds like he's 90 it like literally it filled me with pain and rage um but thankfully most of that book is from the girl's perspective. But female narrators, Rebecca Lowman, she has become one of my favorite narrators ever. She does all of Rainbow Rowell's adult audiobooks. And she's so fucking good. And it pains me that she doesn't do more romance because almost all of her other books are
00:25:20
Speaker
not romance. But yeah, those are the only ones that are really sticking out to me because there's been like great like one off experiences I've had with narrators like for example of Fate, Inked and Blood by Daniel L Jensen like that narrator did a fantastic job with that audiobook but like it's not like I'm gonna go seek them out right to listen to more of their books. I don't know.
00:25:39
Speaker
Yeah, The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean was narrated by um Victoria Villarreal. And I hadn't i don't think I had read. She's done something. I know. like she sat It's one of those voices where it like sounds familiar, but you can't place it. and i And I should have looked up if she what other audio she's done beforehand. But she was really great. I also really like Natalie Nautis, who i think she's I believe she is Asian-American.
00:26:06
Speaker
She does a lot of, she does Helen Huang's books and she does a book that I read earlier this year by Kayak Song called The Nighans and Fire. She does other books too, but she, yes. Helen Huang's narrator, she does other stuff. Yeah, that's Emily Zuweiler. Oh, well she, are they by the city? Weller? I know something they might have like- She did the heart principle, I know that for a fact. Natalie Nautis did. Emily Zuweiler. Because yeah, you said Helen, I thought she had a different name.
00:26:34
Speaker
Oh, maybe because that's what it says on audible. That's the shitty part about narrators is that they all have like 40,000 different names. I know. And then you're like, wait, I've heard this. Listen, I love Samantha Brentmore, but I saw her. You just married it. The most famous girl in the world. Yes. And I saw that name and I said.
00:26:52
Speaker
Aren't you white? Sorry. Like that's a very ethnic sounding name. maybe Maybe she is. I don't know. But I was a little confused. I kept saying Emily Zoo Weller. It's Emily Woo Zeller. I was mixing up Woo Zeller. Okay. Got you. Got you. So are they the same person? Her and Natalie Nautis? That's a great question. Batty. I don't know. I can't find the answer to your question, Kayla. Interesting. Interesting. Anyway, I like her.
00:27:22
Speaker
So other male narrators that I like are Dan Bittner. He did Same Time Next Summer by Annabelle Monaghan, which is not a good book, but he he's a good narrator. It was him and Brittany Pressley who I don't know if we even mentioned Brittany Pressley on our last episode, but she is of her like probably my favorite female narrator um outside of the two that I already mentioned. Like she fucking kills it.
00:27:44
Speaker
And then the guy, I think this might be the same guy. Dan Buettner might also be Will Peters. He did Lizzie Blake's best mistake, which I thought was like really interesting how he tackled that because it's written in third person. So he does a third person narration in his normal American accent. But then anytime Ray could talk, he would bring on the Australian accent, which I thought was like pretty cool. Cause I guess like that's how it would be done. Like cause the narrator is like their own person. So yeah, he's um I'm pretty sure those are the same people, but He's not bad. He's done something else too. I think he probably didn't want to care about Stone's audios. But yeah, he's solid. Kinder, is there anybody else that you have added to your avoid list?
00:28:23
Speaker
not a avoid I think I just um indulge too much and it's Vanessa Edwin i I need a break from her love her she's so great oh my god phenomenal but it was like I was on a kick where it was like everything needed to be narrated by her and now I just my ears can't take it anymore but she has a really like her and Brittany Presley have the best male voices as female narrators They're really good at it. They, like, make the guys sound hot. What book did I listen to this year where they were both on the same book? It was like that. It was a gay book, right? It was gay. Were they on hot summer? No, it wasn't hot summer. Oh, that's what I was thinking of. You I know it. You told me about it. It was like oh it was like a summer camp. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I did not like very much, but they were in the same book, which I was like, oh, my God, Queens. That's why I that's why I tried.
00:29:18
Speaker
the book out because they were both on it together, but it unfortunately wasn't very good. If you could only listen to one male narrator and one female narrator for the rest of your audiobook life, who are you picking? Um, Zachary Weber and Brittany Pressley. I think I would too, as long as he's not phoning it in. Yeah, I think I would probably, I think I'd probably agree with you guys.
00:29:43
Speaker
and don't really have like a female narrator that's like my absolute favorite every single like I don't know because like love Samantha Brentmore I don't love her male voices yeah it's like like they're pretty bad she has another male voice but she never uses it for the MMC she'll always use it for like a side and i'm like switch those like yeah please please please it sounds so much better Yeah, I think with because there's such an abundance, at least to us, of amazing female narrators, it's harder to pick like who like you could listen to the rest of your life. Yeah, because there's so many that are so great. Whereas with the males, there's really not a large pool. None of us said Alex Fink. But I think that's probably because we've only ever listened to one. I've only done Ready or Not with her. say I haven't listened to anything else. Correct. Yeah, same. Yeah. Yeah, she's good. Hope she does promise me sunshine.
00:30:35
Speaker
Me too. I think that would be really interesting because that book is a little heavier than... very Yeah, very different kind of. the The joke delivery would have to be very different, which I think is interesting. Yeah. All right, you guys. What for you separates a good audiobook from a great audiobook? One where you're like, do this on audio.
00:30:56
Speaker
for me it is like delivery of things like personally like if the way that they're saying something makes me laugh or the way that they're saying it makes me cry like i think about zachary weber's like voice cracks that happens you know because like it would have been easier for him to like read that without doing that, um read that sentence and still have like a sad tone. But it's like that extra and for me that like really kills it. That kind of like relates back to what we are just saying about Alex Finke about like the way that she delivers those jokes and ready or not is what like made that a great audiobook to me. Not just the jokes, but the heavy moments to just like acting versus reading. Exactly. Yes, agree. Yeah, I agree with everything that you said. I also think
00:31:44
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An author that I think really does audiobooks very, very well is Beth O'Leary. Her production of her audiobooks is so well done. That's a London thing. that's they They do, yeah. I don't know what it is. audiobook yeah it's the phone right It's the phone calls. Every time you have a phone call on their books, they put on that little voice feature and it sounds so cool because it it becomes so immersive. like I think it's so good. yeah yeah and i mean there are obviously like Books specifically and only meant for audio like Cara Bestone obviously has a large collection of books that are only on audible. They're immersive audios, things like that. That makes sense. I would hope that the production on those types of things would be really well done. Although you do have like Ali Hazelwood just put one out that wasn't immersive. It was just it was just an audio book.
00:32:31
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I saw somebody point that out, how it wasn't immersive. And I was like, Oh, yeah, you're so right. Why was like, why was an audio book exclusive? Yeah, exactly. What's the reason if it's not going to be any different. So yeah, definitely acting versus just reading. I think you can really tell when that happens. And that's, you know, if if you're especially if you're listening to a book that you either were really excited for, or you're like, maybe you already have read this book, and you've loved it, and you just want to try the audio out, but the audio is not good. It's so disappointing. Like, ah nothing worse. Yeah, I think pacing does a lot for me too.
00:33:12
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Cause the narrator can really, I think, oh my God, we're like sucking this guy's dick today. Zach Weber's really good at pacing. Like I think he knows how to drive a book forward. And it's really funny when he's partnered with someone that like does not.
00:33:25
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know how to do that. Because you're listening, it's like you're listening to two separate books at some times. But yeah, like, with the ready or not, I think that's why it felt so great because she knew when to say something really fast and she knew when to say something like a regular so speed. And yeah, I think a lot of that though comes down to direction to like, yeah I would love to know how involved like how directing works for an audio book versus, you know, other forms because some of the things that get through audio books, you're like, how did you not catch that? Or why did you choose to do it that way? And that's why I think the London people eat us up the Brits because their audio books are always so fun.
00:34:05
Speaker
I will never forget in the audiobook of Wild Highway by Demi Perry, Jason Clark spent the entire book calling the main character Gemma instead of Gemma. Like he thought G-E-M-M-A really was pronounced Gemma and the entire audiobook and it was published and it's still out there. You can go listen. He says Gemma, the whole audiobook. That's horrendous. I would simply die if I were the author.
00:34:32
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But I, um, like what you were saying, Kendra with like direction. Yeah. I think with Alex, when she was narrating, whether you're not, she like, she really got the material, if you will. You know what I mean? Like she understood the. The type of joke and how it needed to be said in order to make it even funnier, just not just on paper, you know, but in your voice or in your, yeah, in your voice too, I guess. And so I think that that really, really helps as well.
00:34:58
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So yeah, I wonder if she like, she just read it herself and she was like, okay, I think this is how it's meant to be. Or yeah, how involved Kara was with that particular production because. She really understood the source material. And I think that you can tell when when actors do. And in our last episode, which you haven't listened to our interview with Cara Bastone yet, you should go listen to it. Because she does talk a little bit about the fact that she was nervous after doing all those audible originals and having so much control and so much input and so much investment handing off ready or not to become an audio book was like really daunting to her. And she kind of talked yeah but about that experience. So it's interesting. Yeah.
00:35:35
Speaker
Yeah and not to like continue to suck his dick but like if what you were saying about him pacing I think about even though I don't think this was his best performance I do think about him and yours truly like every time that Jacob's anxiety was like starting to go off like his the way he was talking would change and the way that he was structuring sentences would change and like that's a good example of kind of what you were saying about Zachary when we were two Kendra Yeah, and then some narrators just get really lucky. Brandy, I know this is your man, Jason Clark, but I think him getting the Kennedy Ryan Kingmaker series, I don't think anyone else could do that by him. I think that was a luck thing, like that his voice just fit that character so
00:36:19
Speaker
well I've listened to a couple audiobooks with Jason Clark where I'm like, you shouldn't be here. So I think what you're saying about not everybody can do what Zachary Weber can do, even though I love Jason Clark and I love that for the most part, he's appropriately casted. There's a couple of times where I've listened and I've been like, what are you doing here? Like go back to the ranch.
00:36:40
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yeah We've talked about how Steven Dexter, we think his his niche is like single hot dads. Does he do cowboys? Has he done any LC books?
00:36:51
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I don't remember, but yeah, when he did a ah Chloe Lisa book, I was like, this is not, respectfully. That's a good question to like ponder is like, is that on the author? Is that on the narrator then? Because like, if they think that they're a talented narrator who could adapt to their book, is it on, which I don't know the answer to this, is it on the narrator to adapt? Is it on them to like read the book and like, as they're reading, like kind of figure it out? Or is the author like,
00:37:19
Speaker
that's a good narrator do do what you always do and then you're like that's not right for this book yeah that is very interesting because i think now like audiobook i mean i don't know
Audiobook Recommendations
00:37:30
Speaker
we haven't been in the reading spaces as long as some other people but i think audiobooks i would say since 2021 have written a lot of authors have started to prioritize them authors who have never had their backlist recorded are suddenly doing like all these audios um so i think we you can tell who is an audiobook author or who has a good team that understands audiobooks versus someone who's just probably going with like a really popular name and not understanding like oh like this is probably not the best thing for this book or whatever so i don't know it's uh sometimes it works out but sometimes it does not randy do you know who's doing love to forever
00:38:13
Speaker
I thought it was Connor Grace. Yeah, Connor Grace. And I don't remember. She told us who the girl was. Yeah, I can't remember. Yeah, cuz I was thinking like, that was a good, the favorite audiobook. That was a good team. But again, like, I love Chris Abacker. I think I just, I don't know. Sometimes I think she's someone who could probably be a little more expressive. some Like she has her cadences.
00:38:37
Speaker
I don't know. Again, I think it's just because I got fatigued. Because she does know she is expressive. I don't know what I'm talking about. But like, no, I get it. Like, yeah, she has a ah ah bag of tricks that is a very good bag of tricks. Yeah. So once you listen to that over and over again, you're kind of just like, all right. Yeah. Yeah. yeah and i And I don't necessari think that's a bad thing for like the average audiobook consumer.
00:39:00
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but we gobble those bitches down. So yeah I think it's easy to get tired of a narrator. So I think that's really valid to like take breaks. I even, I got that way with Jason Clark. I listened to a ton of Jason Clark audiobooks last year and I literally, yeah, I'm like, I'm okay for now. I'm gonna chill for a minute. By the way, it's Megan Wicks who's doing Left of Forever.
00:39:21
Speaker
I like Megan Wicks. I think she has yeah a very good, for somebody who has like ah a deeper, kind of more masculine voice, if that's who you're trying to cast, I think Megan Wicks does a really good job. Okay. Okay. Are there any books or series that you've read since our first audio book episode that you, when people are, like you're recommending this book or series to them, you're like, do it on audio only. like Or first, at least.
00:39:50
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Like, it is a series that you have to read on audio. I mean, there's this little tiny series called Shadowhunters.
00:40:02
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And
Fantasy Books on Audio
00:40:03
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I think if you were really short, really pretty, really so tiny, like, a little in no waste. Yeah. um that is really good oh no i think that's like the best way especially i think fantasy on audio for me is just better now mainly because of like pronunciations of stuff like i i mean they don't always get it right there are shadow hunters but it's really pronounced everything wrong and you're just like what the fuck stelle yeah to say that annoys the fuck out of me but city of ashes i'm coming for you it's just like who did that but i don't know i i think those are pretty good on
00:40:41
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audio. I think for me with fantasy on audio, I it depends because like, again, I'm so sorry, I keep using this example. As I'm listening to Ember in the Ashes, if there's a map involved, I need to be able to see that map. And so like, I'm constantly referencing my physical copies of the map because I'm like, I don't know where we're at.
00:41:01
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right now. That's so interesting. sound But I don't look at maps. I know. I love them. I need to know where everybody's at. And but like in a series with a series like Belladonna, which I personally think that you should read on audio. I agree. Or listen to on audio. um You don't need a map, obviously, because first of all, there is no map. But we know. Yeah, there's it just depends for me on the fantasy. What did you say? She said we know she's being an ass. We don't. There's not. It's just not necessary anyway.
00:41:30
Speaker
So, yeah, I think it depends on fantasy. It depends on how intricate the world is to me. Yeah, I think you can just get through that first 20 percent or whatever it is that world building yeah for me easier if I'm listening to it rather than like my eyes. I'm the opposite over it. Yeah.
00:41:52
Speaker
I always tell people to read the pre-series on audio, which I'm pretty sure we talked about that one last time, but still stands. And then, of course, the Belladonna series. I can't think of any others where I'm like, you have to do the audio.
00:42:10
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So I think the Kingmaker series by Kennedy Ryan, I always tell people to do that one on audio, not because of the female narrator. She's not bad. She's just not great. And she sounds I don't know where they found her, to be honest. um yeah yeah But Jason Clark is really good. And I think he adds, like, I don't know, his cadence in that series it just makes it what it is. um So that's a really good audio book.
00:42:35
Speaker
I mean, Abby Jimenez, you can't really go along with any of her audiobooks, even for the first series. I just the only audiobook of hers I haven't done is The Friend Zone, but and Teddy Hamilton does that one, so I'm not missing anything. um But everything after that, I would do an audio from her. One that I don't I don't think you have to.
00:42:55
Speaker
I would just say, I think that The Unmaking of June Farrow is definitely a book that I think is really great on audio, specifically for accents. The little, the Brittany Presley twang is great. And then there's another character that has a different accent than everybody else that I think you would not know that that's how he's supposed to sound.
00:43:14
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Not at all. If you're yeah physically reading it. So I think that that one is a really great one to do on audio as well. I think Laura Hankins books, because she narrates them herself, yeah are really great to do on audio, especially one star romance. um And obviously, since she's the author, she fully understands and gets and really, really cares about the source material. And so delivery is, I think, really, really great on those ones, too. So definitely would recommend those on audio for sure first.
00:43:43
Speaker
yeah i'm trying like i feel like more i wonder if more authors would do that because like you know if they could i wonder like what gave her the push to be like yeah i'll narrate it because jill sent a polo who wrote the light we lost she also narrates all of her audiobooks which i think is interesting which I read those first. so some of the That's the kicker. If you read it first and then you listen to it and it's done by the author and you hear how they and intended something to sound versus how you made it sound, you're like, eww.
00:44:14
Speaker
yeah oh For the most part, we aligned. but At least with Laura Hankin, if you do the audio first, you won't have any other like input on how you think a certain thing should go. so Right. What are some recent audios? We've talked about a few here and there throughout this episode, but what are some recent audiobooks that you have either loved or hated?
00:44:39
Speaker
I'll go first for Love, I need to think about Hate It. But there's a YA novel called Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris. It's so good. I thought it was like very like, it makes me wish I had like a teenager in my life that I could be like, you should read this. I think you'd like probably really enjoy it.
00:44:58
Speaker
It's dual narrated by two women and it's told in past and present so you have one person doing the present and then one doing the past and they all have like little country accents and thought it was just a really fun time on audio like and I got that on PRH and I can always tell when a book is good on PRH when I'm like alright I'll put up with the 2x like I'm not like in the trenches with it so you're so funny i I'm going to try and not talk about, I'm just going to rapid fire the ones that I've like talked about ad nauseam already on this podcast. So The Wedding People, One Star Romance, Ember in the Ashes, Margot's Got Money Troubles, Savor It. Oh, that one's so good. Yeah. This summer will be different ah just for the summer, summer romance. Okay.
00:45:43
Speaker
I've said those, we've talked about those so many times already, so I'm going to try and not name those. But other ones that I really enjoyed this year, um as long as the lemon trees grow by Zulfa Kato, I think is how you say her name, ah that audiobook was really, really well done. it was It was a very emotional read, but I think that the narrator did such a good job of evoking um that emotion and again like we talked about understanding the source material especially because that one is such a heavy you read um I also haven't really talked about this one these are these next two books as much um but Seven Summers uh it's a British audiobook so again we got the the great uh UK production on that one but I really really enjoyed that one it's a love triangle book it's definitely not going to be for everybody
00:46:31
Speaker
but I had a great time. Also summer Fridays, again, not a book that's going to be for everybody, but I really enjoyed it. I thought it was so well done. It was also like a little bit different because they are largely communicating through email on AOL. So it was a little bit, it was kind of fun in that aspect, but those are some that I also really, really enjoyed this year.
00:46:54
Speaker
I have devoured Rainbow Rowell's backlist almost entirely through audio and I have loved every single one. The audio production I thought on all of them was very good and it was interesting to see the difference in between some of her YA books versus the adult books and like how the audiobooks were done and you know she wrote a fantasy trilogy versus her contemporary stuff so that was really really fun. When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson has an incredible incredible audiobook production. That one is on Spotify if anybody wants to listen to it. It's really, really good. There's a full cast ah because there are four main main characters and then some of the other like lesser main characters still have their own narrator. So I think there's five or six narrators on that audiobook and it's really well done.
00:47:47
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and I have listened to all of Carabastone's Audible Originals this year, and love those ones. The only one that I thought, the production and not the writing, because I still really enjoyed the writing, but the that immersive audio was almost a little too immersive for me, was... Oh, don't say it. Yeah, it was the best one. Seatmate. yeah I'm sorry. And like, heart I love the romance in that one, and I love the characters. It literally was just like,
00:48:17
Speaker
I understand what the audio producers were trying to do with like making bags fall from the top and stuff like that. But honestly, like that took me a little out of it, whereas all the other ones sucked me in. But that might have been a me thing because my mom loved to see me. You guys, I know, really, really love the seatmate. um yeah they did just Okay. It didn't distract me. Yeah. the The immersion didn't distract you on that one the way that it did for me. um But like all of her audio books are really immersive. And that was the only one that really like I was having a hard time with the immersion, but they're all so good. They're all worth listening to, including the seatmate, and you might not have the same problem with it that I did. Yeah. um Her first series is on audio.
00:49:01
Speaker
the I love those books. like I think they're really good. um The first two audiobooks, if you can tell yourself like the story is good, ah you can get through it.
00:49:14
Speaker
the last audiobook is the best because they finally switched narrators and got a woman to do it and they're all written in third person which and um i don't know i think you're a good writer when you can do both right in first and third so because i was thinking about that with bethaliri because i just did the flat share by her on audio which again gotta to give it to the Brits that audiobook is so good and like the especially she' the guy who does Leon, Kayla pointed out that he's a nurse and he talks in shorthand like a nurse would write and he does that so well and like the way he would like pick up his voice sometimes and like I don't know it was just a really fun audio um and then wake up call also really fucking good on like I don't know where they found the narrator for the wake up call the male narrator he's so good oh my gosh he's Brazilian well I'm assuming he's Brazilian he's at least a Latino man
00:50:04
Speaker
he was doing so many different accents in that like it was he was honestly eating up the girl and the girl was good but she was like running circles around her like he did really good yeah i'm so excited to listen to the audio thats swept away away yeah that one that would be a really fun like if they want to go full immersive You're like, you're the waves. No, no, no, I don't want to hear that. That'll give me anxiety. No, no, no, no, no. No, thank you. If you want that, just put on the sound machine in the background while you're listening to it or something like that. Yeah. yeah um I also really like Brandy. This was a recommendation you gave me, the pairing on audio. I thought it has two narrators. The first narrator I thought was like phenomenal. The second one, he did something else. Max Myers is his name and
00:50:51
Speaker
I thought that was a really fun audiobook. It has music in it, which I thought I can go either or. Yeah. On music and audiobooks. I kind of don't like it if I'm like, I don't like it. I don't even remember the music in there. It's like a transitional music. so Oh, yeah to yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, can I get it. Especially because we listened to it so fast. I know was listening to that. Yeah. but like oh Yeah. Like who there's a certain is it forever?
00:51:21
Speaker
There's some publishing group. They always have music in their audio books. Oh, yeah, it is forever, because at the Abby Abby's books, there's like some like guitars playing away during the show. It's usually like at the beginnings, though, there's not always yeah like that's fine in the intro. I don't care. But anywhere else, no, I don't want anybody singing in the middle. You know, anyway, a lot of the audios that these people have, these people that Kayla and Brandi have said that I also really enjoyed. I really like Dispel's Love by Kate Robyn Audio. I thought that narrator, I forget her name. She's like another one-off where you're like, if you do more, I'll like you, but I've only ever seen you or heard you in this. I really like her in that. I'm trying to think if I have a favorite Shadowhunters audio, but I don't know if I do. I know. Mine is. What is yours?
00:52:12
Speaker
Are we talking strictly the audiobook production or are we talking the story and the audiobook production combined? Combined. Then I'm going to say Queen of Air and Darkness and then second place um City of Heavenly Fire. Really? Okay. I think mine would be, um, uh, Oh, Oh.
00:52:31
Speaker
wait there's so many good ones but also yeah fucking what's the third uh clockwork princess yeah that's actually my number one that's my favorite right oh my god the way that that narrator does will's welsh accent makes me want to like oh it's really good that one's probably my favorite and then what is it why am i blanking the second book in dark artifices lord of shadows because of one lord of shadows because of the last part when
00:53:01
Speaker
He's like, my baby. I'm like, oh, that's crazy. Um, my baby. We're like, yeah. And then I love the most tragic scene ever. Yeah. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait. This is might be kind of random. Do you guys like it when the author uses the same narrator for all the books or you like it when they switch it up? Because in what Brandi's listening to right now, the, um, uh, Last Hour trilogy by Cassie Claire, same narrator, all three books, which I thought for that one was pretty decent. Um, but.
00:53:29
Speaker
I don't know, I feel like oh the trend now is like we have to get different narrators, especially in like contemporary romance, different narrators for each book. for each couple, unless, yeah. I mean, I personally feel like why i fix a broken thing, you know? So like if they're eating in the first book, everybody's going to be sad that they're not going to do the next book. So, yeah. But I don't know. Sometimes that stuff is scheduled so far out that they don't know if they're going to be well received. Like I know that Zachary Weber books out months and months and months in advance. So if you book him for your first book, I don't know. Like you might have to immediately book for a second and third, depending on how fast those books are being produced.
00:54:04
Speaker
If I got Zachary Weber for my first book, best believe he'll be in every like you're doing everything. Um, cause I was thinking like Elsie Silver is someone who's doing that now, like where, or she's, I guess you always do it than that where she'll switch and I'm like, Oh, I know.
00:54:21
Speaker
I want to talk about it. Yeah. Oh, she's a really good narrator, too. She's South Asian. We met her at a steamy lit. I'm forgetting. Let me look up her name, but she did Elsie Silver's the third book in that series. Mira. Yes. And then she also did one of Nina ku imagine nina Kumar's debut. We like definitely like went to her table or walked by her table. She was there.
00:54:50
Speaker
Or at least I did. Sonali Nankani. So sorry if I mispronounced that. But she did Say You'll Be Mine by Nina Kumar. And she's a really good narrator. And she also does, I'm almost positive. But we walked by the author's table. I know we did the author's table. She's not an author. She's, well, we did her table, yeah. But that narrator was there. Oh, I don't, I don't remember going by her, going by her table. Cause you just don't see color and like. That's where we do that.
00:55:20
Speaker
Nina Kumar's next book, it's like a Sweet Home Alabama. That's about a married couple who's been separated and they get stuck in the house together during a hurricane in Houston. Okay, I'm there. dad That's like a hurricane in Houston. I'd rather be, I'd literally rather be anywhere else. I hate that city, but no offense to my Houstonians. It's just, a why would you literally live in a swamp? But um I'm gonna be there for the romance.
00:55:48
Speaker
I do want also want to say that this past year and I think last year, yeah, I read this last year. I read Babbel by R.F. Kwang last year on audio and I thought that that was so well done. It's very dense. But it was a really good audio book. I literally can't imagine trying to do that book on audio from my little tiny pea brain because of all the footnotes and because of how dense the writing is in that book. Beautiful writing, just very dense. They had a they had a different like Like anytime there would be a footnote, they had a different person say the footnote. And so I think that that helped a little bit. um But yeah, that that one. And then I did Yellowface this year by her as well. And I thought that was a great audio book as well. So I will say shout out Spotify for the audio book program that they have, because
00:56:36
Speaker
so many of my non-bookish friends have like started listening to books because you were saying Arif Kwang and like John he's like listening to the Poppy Wars he ran out of hours so that's like the only about oh my god he got through most of it and then he ran out of Spotify hours he yeah they out but month yeah he did yellow face by Arif Kwang too and then like Madison like I was able to recommend her ready or not and she loved it and She should be treated on audio, too. like yeah Daniel's listening to Mistborn right now. He's like always wanted to read ah Brandon Sanderson, but his books are so daunting because they're massive. so He's just been listening to it on his way to school yeah and back. you're so You're so right because Jared's the exact same way. Jared's been listening to a lot of science fiction books on Spotify, and he gets so upset when he runs out of hours. and so I had to teach him how to use Libby and Hoopla, so now he has my Libby and Hoopla logins, and he uses those.
00:57:27
Speaker
so yeah Yeah, like I think that's like, I think that's a really great program that they introduce because it's like you you don't have to go an extra step. The running out of hours does suck. I think they could, I think they should just give people one book a month. Yeah. Yeah. And it sucks because even if you up your speed, they don't count that as saving your hours. that's no Yeah. But if you are new to audio books and you don't want to pay for anything or you just don't want to go through the trouble of getting a library card because I know that can be a little scary and hard sometimes. I know people think getting access to library is really easy. It's not, especially if you live in like a book desert. um Spotify, if you have it and you have the paid version, you can get audio books for free. And then you can start the process of getting a library card. Hopefully it goes well for you.
00:58:19
Speaker
Um, yeah, this week on our socials on Instagram at bring your own pod, we're going to be posting a little bit of like how to be the most frugal with your audible credits versus like buying the audio book, where we listen, how we, you know, listen, like kind Kendra was just saying on Spotify for free.
00:58:38
Speaker
you know, if you're already paying for the subscription or how to kind of navigate Libby in an effective way. That was something I had to learn how to do. So be on the lookout for that as well. If you're somebody who's like wanting to get into audiobooks. Yeah. Yeah. We love them. Go listen to one. They are fan fantastic. And you can listen to an audiobook doing. We said this in our first episode, but what do you guys like to do while listening to audiobooks?
00:59:08
Speaker
Well, I've gotten back into crocheting in the last year, so I've been crocheting um a lot. I haven't been doing my iPad games recently because I have been crocheting or doing something else. So I don't have a new iPad game. I'm still on I Love You if I'm ever doing an iPad game. um But that's mostly yeah I'm walking, I'm crocheting, I'm doing my dishes, what have you.
00:59:35
Speaker
Yeah, I love to clean while listening to audiobook and that's how I know an audiobook is really good if I'm like, it's not even like a cleaning day. And I'm like, I'm gonna go scrub the bathroom floor because I want to keep listening to this audiobook. I also play a lot of solitaire on my phone while I'm listening to audiobooks.
00:59:54
Speaker
yeah it's a lot for me it's like driving i usually listening while in the car cleaning doing anything like with my dog if we're like sitting outside so there's so much I did get off the games I was playing Tetris a lot and then I need to get new blue light glasses like my eyes just hurt I turned off my screen time because it was getting bad but Yeah. I'm going to be, I feel like I'm, I need to start stacking up audio books that I can listen to because you know I'm going to be moving soon and so I have a lot lot of packing to do. Oh, I know. That's like, I know. through so Honestly, when I had a pack up this summer, that was like the best time because it was like, monotonous, like listening, packing, and and then unpacking everything.
01:00:45
Speaker
This library is sponsored by Lawson Lassoed. I got through that whole audio book putting together my library and that was just like, yeah. So I need to start like thinking of some audio books cause yeah, I have to get our house ready over the next couple of weeks. So we'll be having a lot. I love you so much. And I swear to God, I'm not going to be annoying about this, but I'm just going to say this once and I literally will not say to you again. I already know what you're going to say. I feel like good this is the perfect time.
01:01:13
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to start the mortal instruments. I knew it. I am not going to say it again, but let me quickly make a very short case for this. those are Those are audiobooks that you can speed up even faster than you normally listen. They are silly, especially the first two or three. You're going to be like, wow, this is so 2010. This is so fun, like so nostalgic, a little silly. And then once you're hooked, you're hooked.
01:01:43
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And you've been like struggling with audiobooks recently, like just throw them on. There's no consequence. The thing is, is that like I just have yet to do One Dark Window. And I think until that book is read, she is going to make the deal with me, make the deal with me, Kayla. I'll do whatever you want. No, she's like she's very adamant. She's very adamant in the fact that she does not want to ever read that series. And so I apologize because I've kind of shot that dream. <unk> i'm I'm trying to gentle parent right now. Brandy's trying to be the in between and yeah. I appreciate it. There are so many times that I'm reading where I'm like, Kayla would eat this the fuck up. Yeah. And the first, the first Mortal Instruments book is narrated by Mae Whitman Whitman.
01:02:37
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And this is what I'm saying. Audiobooks need to become super cool again. I mean, I think they're getting there. I mean, we had Joshua Jackson narrating a romance book this year, like a random ass hockey romance. Just it was called Canadian Boy Friend. He needs to do another one. I love Joshua Jackson. Yeah. I'm like, your divorce must be expensive, huh? Doing audiobooks. But I need more celebrities doing audiobooks. Like they're fun. They're cool. like Or at least A lot of celebrities do do audiobooks. I need more celebrities doing romance books. And I'm like, is it still like look down upon like what's going on? I wonder. I mean, I don't know, because Julia Weyland is kind of iconic. I don't think they would do that to her. But um when people we meet on vacation being a movie now, like they sometimes have the cast like reread the book. I think that would be pretty fun. I don't know if Emily Bader would want to do that. But I think that'd be pretty cool and would sell a lot. Just something to consider clean. Oh, thank you, Brandy.
01:03:37
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Anyway. um Well, we love audiobooks. Anyway. middle audio and And just because Kayla won't do Shadowhunters doesn't mean you don't have to. You should listen to the Shadowhunters series, especially if you want to get into fantasy and um or you are a fantasy lover and you want to see like a grandmother just own her children in the genre. I'm calling Cassie Clare a grandmother because she's been in this game a long time.
01:04:01
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but she's very influential, I would say, you read her and you're like, Oh, that's where that person got that from. So she's pretty cool. Anyways, we love audio books. Like I said earlier, be on the lookout for a post for us for how you can get into audio books. If you are somebody who's on the brink, if you love an audio book, tell us in the comments of this episode announcement on Instagram, your favorite audio book one that we haven't mentioned that you are like, how did you not mention this or please read it.
01:04:28
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Please do that. We always love to get recs from you guys. And yeah, if you enjoyed listening to us yap about audiobooks, this is a very fun little chatty episode and you have more things that you would love for us to chat about, please DM us. We have all of our social informations in the description of this episode. And if you really love this episode, you should rate and review us five stars because it would really mean a lot to us. And maybe if you give us five stars, Caleb will eventually break and read but one of the Mortal Instruments. so Please don't promise people that.
01:04:59
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Kayla said if we get to 3,000 followers. If you yeah if you want Kayla to read Mortal Instruments, or you think she should, no one gives a fuck either. like everyone everyone should we like they they're They're with Kayla, they're like, shut shut shut up. ah But yeah, if you enjoyed this episode, you should do all the things that I just mentioned, and we will see you guys on the next one.