And now for something completely different…

I love audiobooks.

I haven’t always been a fan. I’ve been a reader for literally longer than I can remember, and spent the vast majority of my childhood at the city library two blocks away from my house. For a long time, I looked down on audiobooks. They weren’t nearly as pervasive then; most of them I remember were incredibly abridged versions on two or – if you were lucky – four cassette tapes. Who on earth, I thought, would bother listening to half a story on their Walkman when they could c...