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These are 5 ways audiobooks can improve your child

These are 5 ways audiobooks can improve your child's literacy skills.

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This quote from Judi Ketteler is from the article

This quote from Judi Ketteler is from the article "Of course audiobooks count as reading" published on NBC News. Judi is the author of “Would I Lie to You? The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies".

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1. Daisy Jones and the Six This audiobook is a gr

1. Daisy Jones and the Six

This audiobook is a great time. Listeners follow an American rock and roll band, iconic in this fictional world, from the earliest beginnings of their lead singers to their unexpected breakup and all of the drama and excitement that the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle brings with it. Give this book a listen if you’re into historical fiction and the culture that emerged around bands like Fleetwood Mac.

2. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Set in New York’s punk scene in the 1970s, this story is about so much more than music. The main characters are Opal and Nev, an iconic duo of the time that has since gone their separate ways. Opal is a black musician, evoking other pioneering women in the industry like Grace Jones and Nev was her Elvis Costello-ish partner. Their story is ‘retold’ by a journalist who captured both Opal and Nev’s oral history of their time together and crafts it into a journalistic narrative. This audiobook is a great story, so immersive that for a moment I second-guessed myself that perhaps it was a true story.

3. Nina Simone’s Gum

A non-fiction addition to the list, at times this memoir reads a bit more like song lyrics than most autobiographical works. Written by the veteran composer and musician Warren Ellis, the story is anchored around a physical object, a piece of chewing gum left by Nina Simone, that actually frames so much of his long career. It was definitely the title that hooked me but hearing about the author’s career journey and how a little piece of trash became his totem was really fascinating. Of those who lend their voices to tell Ellis’ story, Nick Cave is the most notable.

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From “The Gang’s All Here: Full-Cast Rock-and-Roll Audiobooks” by Danielle Prostrollo-Hill published on the Audiobook Addicts website.

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Her Soul to Take: Souls Trilogy, Book 1 This thor

Her Soul to Take: Souls Trilogy, Book 1
This thoroughly modern gothic romance stars college student Rae, a budding paranormal investigator fated to meet a security guard named Leon. But is he what and who he seems?

The Widow of Rose House
A gothic romance set in the gilded age that’s as delightful as it is dark, Alva Webster finally escapes an abusive marriage and heartless gossip, returning stateside to a rundown New York mansion she intends to restore into a home.

Devil at the Gates
The plotline is pure English gothic, with heroine Harriet lost and injured on a stormy night escaping her cruel stepfather.

Last Night's Scandal
This is Book 5 in the Carsington Brothers series. While the hero and heroine appear as children in an earlier book, we reviewed this as a standalone for its gothic elements.

Jane Steele
Inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, this gothic romance injects modern satire and graphic action with a bold serial killer for a heroine.

Rebecca
‘Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ Whether you’re familiar or unfamiliar with one of the most famous first lines in 20th-century romantic literature, it’s not too late to discover—or rediscover—Daphne du Maurier’s gothic romance masterpiece in audiobook form.

The Book of Living Secrets
Called genre-bending, The Book of Living Secrets is a teen gothic romance with two young heroines, Adelle and Connie, encountering danger in an alternate reality after they physically transport into Moira, the world within their favorite book.

Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck is an American gothic romance that takes place during the spring of 1844 in the Hudson River Valley. The heroine is 18-year-old Miranda Wells, bored with farm life and longing for escape.

On the Night of the Seventh Moon
Any gothic romance fan interested in the genre's modern history may want to indulge in an audiobook by Victoria Holt.

From “9 Sexy Gothic Romance Audiobooks that Turn Up the Heat!” by Andrea Papillon published on Audiobook Addicts.
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These are five ways audiobooks can benefit your me

These are five ways audiobooks can benefit your mental health.

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"One of the things that for me is important is I'm

"One of the things that for me is important is I'm always trying to represent the voice of the book, first and foremost, not my voice. So that's what I mean by I have a consistent performance voice that I think people are familiar with, and therefore they don't have to get into a new voice when they settle into a new story."

This quote is from a recent interview between Julia Whelan and NPR's Mary Louise Kelly in which Julia talks about bringing her own profession to the pages of her new novel, Thank You For Listening.

Another part of the interview I enjoyed was Julia's response to the question, "Is this the most meta thing ever?"

"At this point, nothing makes sense to me. I knew obviously when I was writing it that I was writing a very meta novel. But when I got into the booth to actually record the book, it just hit different. And I understood that I had written something that was possibly so meta it just spins off its axis."

Have you listened to Thank You For Listening? What did you think?

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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is a multi-generat

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is a multi-generational novel of loss and family strife that begins and ends in an art deco mansion outside Philadelphia.

I was drawn to this audiobook by the narration of Tom Hanks. The actor brings sensitivity, warmth, and humour to the character of Danny who, along with his older sister, Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up (The Dutch House) by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another.

The quality of the narration is matched by the writing – the novel was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize 2020 for Fiction.

My favorite quote: “We overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”

Have you listed to The Dutch House? What did you think?

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"While many turn to audiobooks out of convenience,

"While many turn to audiobooks out of convenience, there is also a sense of comfort to be found in spending hours with a voice and a story. For me, audiobooks come with a generous helping of nostalgia; a harking back to bedtime stories and the warm fuzziness of being read to." - Sebastian Modak

This quote from article "The Very Human Pleasure of Being Read To" published by @nytimes.

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"Sometimes what you need isn't to read a good book

"Sometimes what you need isn't to read a good book; it's to listen to one." - Ayesha Rascoe

This quote from NPR's Ayesha Rascoe is from an interview with Book Riot contributing editor Kendra Winchester. You can listen to and/ or read the transcript on the NPR website under the title "What qualities make an audiobook good?".

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