I ended up choosing Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye which is a whopping 23 hours and 50 minutes! If we don't finish the thriller on the road trip, my sister and I go to the gym together every day so we can finish it on those trips. The narration has good reviews so I hope Mona enjoys it.
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Laura - May 23, 2025 8:42:23 am PDT #28305 of 28309
Our wings are not tired.
DavidS - May 23, 2025 9:50:51 am PDT #28306 of 28309
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
FWIW, my very first audiobooks consumed were Harry Potter. I listened to 7 novels in my car on FL/NY/FL trips! I had tried to read them without success previously but loved listening to them all.
Emmett and I listened to all the Jim Dale HP audiobooks on his commutes to school. A strong bonding experience with him.
The only other audiobook we really enjoyed was Pratchett's The Wee Free Men narrated by Stephen Briggs, which made us laugh out loud many times: [link]
meara - May 23, 2025 1:34:54 pm PDT #28307 of 28309
I'm very not an audiobook person (it's too slow, even sped up, vs reading for me! And most of my available time is 10-20 minutes here and there, which is hard to remember the plot), but have found I sometimes enjoy a memoir read by the person--I've listened to that on long roadtrips where I had already binged all pending podcasts.
-t - May 23, 2025 1:42:04 pm PDT #28308 of 28309
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What I have lately become kind of addicted to is listening to the audiobook while I read the e-book. Takes some tinkering to get the speed comfortable but it really amps up my concentration. There's no sense in doing it if I'm going to be multi tasking or switching between things at all, though. my nephew told me it was something he did in college as a study aid and I thought it sounded impossible but turns out I really like it when I can do it. Amazon whispersync really works well for this, but I'm doing it manually with another sort of e-reader right now and it's fine
Dana - May 23, 2025 1:42:13 pm PDT #28309 of 28309
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We listened to Andy Weir's Hail Mary on the drive up. And then for hours driving around town.