Audiobooks?

Parent Cafe
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<p>I love audiobooks and always listen to them on long car trips and while doing tasks like painting rooms. And of course I listen to them while working in my “chocolate factory” or I would go insane.</p>

<p>I strongly recommend ANYTHING read by Barbara Rosenblatt. She is the goddess of audiobooks. I happen to love Elizabeth Peters’ books, but Rosenblatt makes even authors I can’t stand (Diane Mott Davidson, for example) worth listening to.</p>

<p>I also recommend getting more than one book just in case. Sometimes one stumbles across a reader who is simply intolerable.</p>

<p>My last recommendation is to NEVER listen to an abridged book, even if the abridgement is, as they always are, “approved by the author.” Usually everything that gives the book character will have been removed in favor of bare bones plot.</p>

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<p>Audiobooks saved us when we were stuck on a mt pass when a long line of cars went off the road after a nasty patch of ice.
( oh & the cop gave us all a ticket to boot- for " illegally parking")</p>

<p>We had the unabridged version ( american) of one of the Harry Potter books from a previous Christmas. It was a long drive anyway ( 7+hrs) but I don’t know * what * we would have done without the CD’s</p>

<p>My youngest also had to listen to The Giver for months every night before bed ( this was after her Really Rosie phase)- but I haven’t listened to any adult books for a while, so I appreciate the suggestions.</p>