Audiobooks

I started listening to audiobooks back in 2017 when my husband (then boyfriend) decided that we were going to take a 17-hour road trip from our home in Wisconsin to his family’s lake house outside of Austin, TX. I thought ‘There is absolutely no way that I am going to listen to his rap music for more than an hour. There’s got to be something better to do with our time.’ After a discussion with him about what kind of book to read (we settled on science fiction), we picked Artemis by Andy Weir. He resisted at first, but eventually came around. It was amazing! I highly recommend it, especially if you’re a Jane The Virgin fan: the narrator, Rosario Dawson, is a recurring character.

Here are the audiobooks I listened to in 2018:

• Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng
• Harry Potter: Books 1-7 — J.K. Rowling
• A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles
• My Life in France — Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme
• Lock In — John Scalzi
• The Silkworm — Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)

And I LOVED every single one of them. I’ll give you the highlights here.

Jim Dale, who narrated Harry Potter, was just as amazing as everyone had promised me. I immediately wanted to go back and re-listen to all of them, but decided I should listen to something new.

Everything I Never Told You stayed with me for a long time. The switching narrators drew me in, and I felt like Celeste Ng was able to build the characters into real, flawed people. The narration was beautiful as well.

I bought My Life in France after my millionth re-watch of Julie and Julia. It’s a move that I watch every time I am home sick, because I am able to sit and dream about what life (non-sick life) would be like in France. This audiobook gave me the same feelings. I have now added a trip to the south of France to my bucket list and have been bugging my husband to plan a trip ever since.

Let me know what audiobook I should listen to next!