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April is family and kids listening month at AudioFile, and this week we're celebrating immigrant children. Here's a fun Behind the Mic video-blog by narrator Ramon de Campo about the making of Anne Sibley O'Brien's I'm New Here: https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20....
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Over 60 languages are spoken in Portland, Maine schools, including 30 in one elementary school alone. Aurelia here with a spot-on blog post by AudioFile's Emily Connelly of audiobooks about immigrant kids that she and her family have enjoyed: https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20.... We also have a link to a terrific initiative called http://www.imyourneighborbooks.org.
With Kate Reading visiting us as Guest Narrator today and tomorrow (at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...), it's a perfect moment to repost her delightful Behind the Mic video blog about A Study in Scarlet Women (shot inside her dark and mysterious sound-booth). Have fun: https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20....
We have a thrilling new Solve blog post on the mysterious fascination of mysteries and suspense novels (reviews, links and sound clips included): https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20.... Get it? 'Thriller' - 'thrilling'.
Our Tease blog post, which always appears on a Tuesday because by second day of the work week, we definitely need more satisfaction, has a some sizzling picks this week (reviews, links, and sound clips included): https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20....
Narrator Cassandra Campbell started her career as a kid by reading James and the Giant Peach aloud to her somewhat resistant siblings. Now that she's grown-up and professional, no one resists the popular narrator. Her reading of The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors was just posted in https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... Here's a chance to meet her, and see and hear more of her work: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr....
As I just posted at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..., Kyle Idleman does a great job reading this own non-fiction spiritual message, 'Grace is Greater'. Not all authors have that skill. Here are producer Paul Ruben's thoughts on what makes a great narrator memorable (and a bad one really bad): https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20....
Aurelia here. Elinor Lipman is funny and thought-provoking, with a useful skill for spotting the story in, say, a man's mismatched socks. So a new novel, On Turpentine Lane, given an ace reading by Mia Barron is cause for celebration. Here's a sound clip and review: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....And for good measure, I chatted with Lipman a few years ago; here's what I learned: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/auth... (Hint: she loves Barron's interpretations of her work....)
On the 14th, we posted Richard Ford's newest, a memoir called Between Them: Remembering My Parents, which has been acclaimed by many, including our reviewer, who gave it an Earphones Award for the writing and Christian Baskous's performance: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi.... Seemed an opportune time to meet Ford again: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/auth.... He's a powerfully interesting man.
Having just posted about Jenna Lamia's latest Earphones Award (for The Book of Polly), it seemed the right time to share more about her. Check out her narrator's page: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr... and her many narrations reviewed by AudioFile: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi.... And by the way, kudos to her parents to reading aloud to her when she was a kid - it was great training for the future narrator!
Maggie Siff did a gorgeous job narrating Stephen King's newest, Gwendy's Button Box. Here's what she has to say: “I’ve always loved hearing stories out loud. Being able to close your eyes and be carried along in the flow of someone else’s interpretation of language, there’s a way that I think you can surrender to it differently than if you’re reading for yourself. And there’s more color that somebody else is giving to the story, and then it becomes a sort of collaboration between your own imagination and somebody else’s imagination interpreting a story. I think that’s very pleasurable.”
And here's a sound clip and the review of her Earphones Award-winning narration: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....
Aurelia here to report that John Lee, who visited us recently on Goodreads, has won an Earphones Award for Philip Kerr's Prussian Blue. Here's what John had to say: “The combination of the mockery of fascists and the awful bitterness that comes from the consequences of allowing them power makes Philip Kerr’s Berlin novels exquisitely painful treats. Being offered the next in a series that has always been hauntingly written sometimes gives me pause: Will this one be as good as the others? Mr. Kerr does not disappoint.”
Here's John's profile on AFM.com: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr....
And here's a link to John's visit with us. Enjoy. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....
Here's a great (and exclusive!) interview from AFM's Tease blog, with author Kristen Ashley, whose newest is Complicated. Review: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi.... She's an author who is gung-ho for audiobooks: https://blog.audiofilemagazine.com/20....
Woo-ee! The newest Tease blog post: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog.... It's a great celebration of narrator Steve West and the interview is a hoot. Recording in your underwear? Who knew?Feel free to subscribe to the blog yourself. The link is in the right sidebar on this page: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog/.
Aurelia here to say that our latest Solve blog has some great crime listening for your summer. Check it out: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog....In the blog, Jen asks what we're anticipating this summer. Well, on my download list, I have Mrs Pargeter's Principle by Simon Brett (read by Simon Brett!), http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi... and Where the Lost Girls Go by R. J. Noonan, read by one of my favorites, Emily Woo Zeller, http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....
The Audie winners are announced tomorrow night! That's Thursday June 1, beginning 6:30pm EST in the U.S. Fingers crossed for your favorites.Jenn will be updating our Audies webpage, http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/audies/, with the winners as they're announced. So keep that page live on your computer.
If Twitter is more your speed at night, Francesca will be tweeting the winners right here: https://twitter.com/AudioFileMag.
Aurelia her to say that actress and author Kathleen Turner is a trouper. I really enjoyed speaking with her about her memoir Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, which she narrated as well as wrote. Here's the interview: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr.... And the audiobook review, including sound clip: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....
Tavia Gilbert and Simon Vance won the Audie Awards for Best Female and Best Male Narrator, respectively for Be Frank With Me and Jerusalem. Well done, Tavia and Simon!Read how Tavia prepares for work here: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr....
Catch up with Simon's trip to Northampton for the recording here: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog....
AudioFile is having a live Twitter chat with the narrator Katherine Kellgren on Twitter tonight from 7-8PM EST. Check out her many great narrations here: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr.... Be sure to follow her at @katykellgren and AudioFile at @AudioFileMag, and tonight, ask away using the hashtag #kellgrenchat.
Hey Everyone, here are some really interesting results from the recent Audio Publishers Survey: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?ui=.... Turns out that more and more folks are joining us as audiobook listeners! We are the leading edge of a listening trend. Then again, we've always known that we are the leading edge, haven't we? Speaking personally, unlike some people in the survey, I don't listen on a home device such as Amazon Echo. Do you?
Aurelia here to remind everyone that AudioFile posts audio reviews as well as the written ones. They're a great way to catch up on new books when you can't look at a magazine or screen. Here's the recent sound review of Sebastian Barry's novel Days Without End: https://soundcloud.com/audiofilemagaz....And in case you can't stand waiting for me to tell you what I've found in the AFM e-newsletter, here's the link to sign up yourself: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/emai....
January Lavoy, a GR favorite, has won another much-deserved Earphones Award. This one for John Grisham's Camino Island: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....Turns out she's a big Grisham fan. Here's what she told us recently: “I still remember the experience of reading and re-reading A TIME TO KILL when I was in high school—one of my favorite titles ever—so I was thrilled to narrate CAMINO ISLAND. A beach read by John Grisham! It feels like a positively decadent gift to a longtime fan like me.”
And Grisham is a big audiobook fan. Here's a link to a recent interview in which he mentions our favorite reading technique: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/04/5314444....
Narrator Christian Baskous sounds amazingly like Richard Ford, which adds to the pleasure of his Behind the Mic video blog about performing Ford's newest book, Between Them: Remembering My Parents. http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog.... He won an Earphones Award for the narration, and it's easy to see why!
Narrator Andi Arndt won this year's Audie Award in the Romance category, and here she is in a Behind the Mic video blog, talking about the pleasures of performing Kylie Scott's books, including this year's winner, Dirty. Enjoy! http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog....
Here's the wonderful Julia Whelan with a Behind the Mic video blog about narrating Plus One by Elizabeth Fama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs14w.... And here's the review of the intriguing young-adult alternate reality tale: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....
Happy almost 4th of July to everyone who celebrates it. And happy fireworks anyway to those who don't! Our gift to you is this Behind the Mic video blog with classic Maine comic Tim Sample, all about his narration of Stephen King's Drunken Fireworks. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdxy....
Here's a really thoughtful Behind the Mic video blog by Kimberley Farr about performing Elizabeth Strout's Anything Is Possible - http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog.... She won an Earphones Award for the stellar performance. Here's a sound clip and review: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....
Aurelia here with AudioFile blogger Jen Forbus's great new post about listening and mysteries: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog.... All I can say is that she's got a lucky dog! (You'll see what I mean.)
As she mentions Dennis Lehane's newest, Since We Fell, I thought I'd add a link to narrator Julia Whelan's page, which includes some fun videos: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr....
Here's what Elizabeth Rogers has to say about narrating the newest Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, which the AudioFile reviewer loved. (Sound clip and review: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....) “As a woman, I never thought I'd have the opportunity to play a role like James Bond or Jason Bourne... but with Jane Hawk, I finally got my chance. Dean Koontz has created a uniquely clever, powerful, and passionate heroine, who is driven by the most primal of motivations — vengeance, and love for her family — to follow this dark and twisted path wherever it may lead. I can't wait to see where Mr. Koontz takes her next.”
Aurelia here. I just posted James Patterson's newest, The Black Book, read by Eduardo Ballerini on Latest from AudioFile. Here's Ballerini's AFM profile with lots of sound clips: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narr.... He has a child just reaching the reading-to-stage. Lucky kid.
Oh, this is fun. Therese Plummer, who won an Earphones Award for Kevin Wilson's Perfect Little World in a Behind the Mic video blog - http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog.... Recorded, I think, in her kitchen, which has lovely light...
Christina Delaine has won an Earphones Award for her performance of Saul Black's Lovemurder. Here's what she has to say about the second in the detective series - “We all have the capability to be by turns fierce and fragile, violent and tender, both brutal and beautiful, and to me, the most interesting characters exist in the tense space between such dichotomies. Saul Black has given me such a gift in his heroine Valerie Hart, who, caught between contradictions, constantly struggles to fight off her worst impulses with her best. I flat out love playing her."
Here's the sound clip and review: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi.... And here's more from Christina, including the new Anne Hillerman: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/revi....
A new Behind the Mic video blog has posted! It's Dan Bittner chatting about his Earphones Award-winning performance of Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/blog.... According to Dan, “Growing up is messy and it’s complicated, and Bill nails it in his writing.”
Author CD Reiss, whose Marriage Games won the 2017 Audie Award for Erotica, took her 13 year-old son to the ceremony. That and lots more in this exclusive author chat for our Tease blog: http://bit.ly/AuthorChatCDReiss.
Narrator Brian Nishii is a real pleasure in this latest Behind the Mic video blog: http://bit.ly/BTMNishii. Shion Miura's The Great Passage is all about a dictionary, and trust me, it's fascinating!
Aurelia here. I just posted Gordon Griffin's terrific performance of Lenin on the Train in Latest from AudioFile, which reminded me that Gordon is a narrating phenomenon. Meet him here: http://bit.ly/GordonGriffin.
I just posted Mark Kurlansky's Ready for a Brand New Beat: How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America over at Summer When It Sizzles. Thought you enjoy meeting him: http://bit.ly/MarkKurlansky.
This is Aurelia to say that the newest AudioFile e-newletter, listing stacks of new audiobooks and reviews, just dropped into my in-box. If you'd to take a look, here's the link to the subscription page: http://bit.ly/AFMSubscribe. The newsletter shows up three times a month, which as Elsa Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear might have said, is not too many and not too few; in other words, just right.
Is listening to books a form of cheating? Here's a terrific new SOLVE blog post by Jen Forbes about a topic close to the hearts of all GR Audiobook Group members: http://bit.ly/SolveReadingVersusListe.... And it includes a great list of new mysteries.
Aurelia here. This week's SOLVE blog celebrates friendship in mysteries. Have a look: http://bit.ly/SolveAugust. One of the series mentioned is a personal favorite - James Lee Burke, who's often performed by Will Patton. So, here's a chance to meet Will, who's a Goodreads favorite: http://bit.ly/WillPatton.
Aurelia here with The Download, AFM's brand-new podcast venture. Our first features author James Patterson and narrator Eduardo Ballerini talking and joshing together about their newest collaboration, The Black Book. They're a kick: http://bit.ly/TheDownloadPattersonBal....
Meet Sheila Nevins, who got everyone from Alan Alda and Meryl Streep to Katie Couric to voice her You Don't Look Your Age: And Other Fairy Tales. It was, as they say, a piece of work: http://bit.ly/SheilaNevins.
Romance is SO much more than ripped bodices these days. Check out Caitlyn's latest Tease blog: http://bit.ly/TeaseRomanceNegotiation.And for further temptation, check out narrator Nick Boulton, mentioned in the blog. http://bit.ly/NickBoulton He's one talented and funny guy.
George Guidall, who visited us here as a GR Guest Narrator, has a new Daniel Silva/Gabriel Allon, House of Spies, out. Sound clip and review: http://bit.ly/HouseOfSpiesReview.Here's what George has to say about it: “Fans write me asking when the next Dan Silva is arriving. I don't think they realize that I'm as eager to receive it as they are. The Gabriel Allon spy series just keeps getting better and better. Contemporaneous with today's world, prescient, with great characters, all making it a narrator's dream.”
Aurelia here with the reminder that you, too, can subscribe to the free AudioFile e-newsletter, full of reviews and narrator comments. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/AFMNewsletterSubscribe. And here are two listens pulled from yesterday's newsletter-Louise Penny's latest Inspector Gamache mystery, Glass Houses has won an Earphones Award. Sound clip and review: http://bit.ly/GlassHousesReview.
Also, hey hey for the Monkeys, or at least, Michael Nesmith's engaging memoir and audio performance, Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff. Review: http://bit.ly/InfiniteTuesdayReview.
Aurelia here with a huge treat for all of us George Guidall fans. He was interviewed in yesterday's New York Times! Enjoy. http://bit.ly/UndisputedGeorgeGuidallAnd because there can never be too much George, here's his AFM profile page:
http://bit.ly/GeorgeGuidallProfile. Sound clips galore.
Aurelia here with Robin's Roundup of diverting new books: http://bit.ly/RobinsRoundup. And Tom Walkin's Self blog about books on hot-button topics: http://bit.ly/SelfCriticalThinkingBlog.
Hitting the road one more time this summer? Well, this is Aurelia with the latest episode of The Download, AFM's podcast about - surprise! - audiobooks. It's all about perfect road trip listens. http://bit.ly/TheDownloadRoadTrips. Line it up before you fill the tank and you'll be set.
This is Aurelia to say that just in time for the upcoming Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War, his narration of an abridgment of the book has won an Earphones Award. Sound clip and review: http://bit.ly/VietnamWarReview. I found it topping the latest AFM e-newsletter, to which you, too, may subscribe: http://bit.ly/NewsletterSubscribeAugust.
Aurelia here with a huge treat. Scott Brick in a Behind the Mic video blog about his narration of Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth. Have fun watching! http://bit.ly/BehindTheMicDragonTeeth.
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