Day 3 of Audiobook week 2013 topic:
Wednesday: Mid-week Audiobook Week Meme
Current/most recent audiobook
Impressions
Current/most recent favorite audiobook
Favorite narrator you’ve discovered recently
One title from your TBL (to be listened) stack, or your audio wishlist
Julie’s Thoughts
Current/most recent audiobook: I’m currently listening to The Program, by Suzanne Young. Read by Joy Osmanski. I’m listening through my audiobooks.com account.
Impressions: I’m not super impressed with this narration so far. I’m about halfway done with the book and it sounds like it would be a much more emotional read if I was reading it with my eyes instead. I mean the topic is about a teen suicide epidemic and the “at risk” teens being forced to go through The Program to keep them from killing themselves, and they come back very different – they don’t have any memories of their boyfriend/girlfriend or their close friends. It should be more exciting, and more emotional when someone close to them dies, or gets taken in, but I’m not getting that impression with the narration. Also, her voice doesn’t change that much so all the voices sound kind of the same.
Current/most recent favorite audiobook: I don’t have a favorite audiobook, but the audibooks that top the list are the Harry Potter audiobooks narrated by Jim Dale and the Outlander audiobooks narrated by Davina Porter. Both narrators do such amazing voices and accents and every character has their own recognizable voice. Amazing!
Favorite narrator you’ve discovered recently: Jim Dale and Davina Porter. I also really like Tavia Gilbert who narrates the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost.
One title from your TBL (to be listened) stack, or your audio wishlist: The rest of the Outlander books are on the TBL stack (I’ve only finished the first 3 so far), though their increasing length feels daunting. I’m also going to finish the Night Huntress series (I’ve finished 4 so far).
Rose’s Thoughts
Current/most recent audiobook: Wounded by Jasinder Wilder narrated by Greg Sule Wilson and Alexandria Stevens
Impressions: I just finished listening to this book this morning actually. I liked the story. I do not believe the war aspect was extremely realistic, nor was the female character’s life realistically portrayed. However, I did think the author did a wonderful job of taking the love story aspect slowly. Usually the falling in love is way too rushed IMHO. The female reader was okay. The male reader was difficult for me to listen to. He completely got into his role and was reading the scenes very very very I mean VERY intensely, sighs, groans and all other gutteral noises included. In fact, I almost stopped listening because his reading turned me off. WAY OFF!!!
Current/most recent favorite audiobook: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green narrated by Kate Rudd
Favorite narrator you’ve discovered recently: Kate Rudd
One title from your TBL (to be listened) stack, or your audio wishlist: I really want to listen to all of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series read by Davina Porter and I want to listen to Hopeless by Colleen Hoover, read by Angela Goethals. And I really want to listen to Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan because it was just released this month and guess who reads it? YUP! Kate Rudd!
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Ooh I hadn’t heard that Reason to Breathe is available on audio! I’ll have to look it up. Loved TFiOS too.
Jim Dale is one of my favorites. I think he’s great in children’s books.
I don’t know – maybe I’ve just had really good luck with narrators so far, but I don’t pay much attention to who’s reading the book.
A narrator can really make or break a book. It sounds like I need to read The Program & Wounded in print format 🙂