Reader's Roundtable Episode 38: Let's Talk About Audiobooks

This month we talk audiobooks with our special guest Eric Stanton, Public Service Librarian at CADL Okemos and audiobook enthusiast.

Eric’s Titles:

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Lucy Stone Mystery Series by Leslie Meier

Currently reading: What I Am Living For: Lessons from the life and writings of Thomas Merton edited by Jon M. Sweeney

Jessica Picks and Topics:

Audiofile Magazine 

o   Golden Voice Narrators

o   Earphone Award Winners--The award is given by AudioFile to truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text.

·        The Audies (given by the Audio Publishers Association)

·        Association For Library Service to Children: Odyssey Award  

Audiobooks:

Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson (with added crazy content)—might be the reason I went back to audiobooks.

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (with music)

Book:

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Mari’s Titles:

Audiobooks:

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Out Of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

Historical Information about the New London, TX school explosion: Website: http://nlsd.net/index2.html

Currently reading: Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth Bunce (A Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery)

Cheryl’s Titles:

Just finished (print books – not audiobooks):

M Train by Patti Smith

A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Stuart Macintyre

Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts by J. Drew Lanham