It's Time to Listen - December

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

I ♥ Audio books!

Why should you listen to audio books?
1. they allow multitasking
2. audio books help when reading regular books is hard
3. they elevate the reading experience
4. audio books are convenient
5. audio books give your eyes a break

How many hours do you think you will listen to audio books this month?

Levels:
Easy: 8+ hours
Medium: 12+ hours
Hard: 20+ hours
Way Too Long: 30+ hours
What Else Are You Gonna Do?: 50+ hours
Permanent Distraction!: 100+ hrs

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

I have a question for everyone: Do you want an audio book monthly challenge for 2023? If so, any ideas to change it up?

[Alison (Lady Coffin)]

Change it up, huuummmmm
Only thing I can currently think of is themes. However, themes sort feel like so many other monthly challenges, and might make it harder for many people.
🤔🤔🤔

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl]

It's Time to Listen-Dec

Lvl: What Else Are You Gonna Do?: 50+ hours

✔️Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases 8h 45m
✔️Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six 12h 20m
P Talk Santa to Me 54m
✔️Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead 9h 21m
✔️All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind 9h 3m
✔️Tell Me No Lies 10h 44m
✔️The Family Game 10h 52m
✔️A Very Merry Bromance 9h 41
✔️Dark Room Etiquette 12h 16m
✔️Delilah Green Doesn't Care 11h 42m
✔️Friends Like These 12h 27m

Total Hrs Listened: 108h 05m

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl]

Lanelle wrote: "I have a question for everyone: Do you want an audio book monthly challenge for 2023? If so, any ideas to change it up?"

Yes! I like the current way it's done

[~Melissa~]

It's Time to Listen-Dec
Probably: Way Too Long: 30+ hours

[Michelle]

It's time to listen
What Else Are You Gonna Do?: 50+ hours

Book 1 - Hell On Heels
Author - Robyn Peterman
Date - 12/1/22
Time - 9 hrs 46 minutes

Book # 2 - Stay Alive: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds, The Donner Party Expedition, 1846
Author - Rodman Philbrick
Date - 12/2/22
Time - 2 hours 58 minutes

Book # 3 - Tales of the Peculiar
Author - Ransom Riggs
Date - 12/3/22
Time - 4 hours 26 minutes

Book # 4 - All Are Welcome
Author - Liz Parker
Date - 12/4/22
Time - 8 hours 2 minutes

Book # 5 - Shattered Bonds
Author - Faith Hunter
Date - 12/11/22
Time - 15 hrs 54 minutes

Book # 6 - Shadow Spell
Author - Nora Roberts
Date - 12/14/22
Time - 11 hours 20 minutes

Book # 7 - The Life She Was Given
Author - Ellen Marie Wiseman
Date - 12/16/22
Time - 13 hours 9 minutes

TOTAL TIME - 55 hours 51 minutes

[Alison (Lady Coffin)]

Avid Reader and Geek Girl wrote: "Lanelle wrote: "I have a question for everyone: Do you want an audio book monthly challenge for 2023? If so, any ideas to change it up?"

Yes! I like the current way it's done"

I got to say I agree.

[Alison (Lady Coffin)]

Permanent Distraction!: 100+ hrs

The Proposal (The Wedding Date #2) by Jasmine Guillory - done 12/3/2022
9 hours 2 minutes

No Good Tea Goes Unpunished (Seaside Café Mystery #2) by Bree Baker - done 12/4/2022
8 hours 26 minutes

Broken (Deep Ops #3) by Rebecca Zanetti - done 12/5/2022
10 hours 2 minutes

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files #4) by Jim Butcher - done 12/7/2022
11 hours 13 minutes

Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) by Jim Butcher - done 12/10/2022
11 hours 18 minutes

Flora's Travelling Christmas Shop (The Travelling Shops #3) by Rebecca Raisin - 12/11
7 hours 56 minutes

Breaking the Mould (A Vintage Kitchen Mystery, #8) by Victoria Hamilton - 12/15/2022
10 hours 16 minutes

Witch It Real Good (Witchless in Seattle #10) by Dakota Cassidy - done 12/17/2022
6 hours 30 minutes

The Serpent in Heaven (Gunnie Rose #4) by Charlaine Harris - done 12/18/2022
8 hours 59 minutes

Tangled Up in Tinsel (Kenni Lowry #6) by Tonya Kappes - done 12/20/2022
6 hours 26 minutes

Carnage in a Pear Tree: A Witchy Christmas Cozy Mystery (Marshmallow Hollow Mysteries #4) by Dakota Cassidy - done 12/24/2022
5 hours 24 minutes ?

Blood Rites (The Dresden Files #6) by Jim Butcher - done 12/23/2022
12 hours 50 minutes

The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer - done 12/25/2022
10 hours 16 minutes

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal - partially read
4 hours 30 minutes aprox


Total = 123 hours 8 minutes

[Meg]

Well, my listening time is going better than I thought!

What Else Are You Gonna Do?: 50+ hours

1. Yule Log Murder 12/02
TIME: 8 hrs 59min

2. A Nancy Drew Christmas 12/03
TIME: 6hrs 24min

3. Murder at Morrington Hall 12/03
TIME: 8 hrs 10min

4. Tonight You're Dead 12/04
TIME: 10 hrs 14min

5. Round Up the Usual Peacocks 12/05
TIME: 10 hrs 32min

6. A Cup of Holiday Fear 12/06
TIME: 7 hrs 3min

7. Death in D Minor 12/06
TIME: 8 hrs 23min

8. Dashing Through the Snowbirds
TIME: 10 hrs 4min

9. Slashing Through the Snow 12/11
TIME: 8 hrs 16min

10. A Gift of Bones 12/14
TIME: 8 hrs 10min

11. O Little town of Maggody 12/18
TIME: 8 hrs 14min

12. Candy Slain Murder 12/19
TIME: 7 hrs 48min

13. Hercule Poirot's Christmas 12/20
TIME: 6 hrs 8 min

14. Murder, Mayhem and Bliss 12/26
TIME: 9 hrs 30min

15. Last Diner Standing 12/29
TIME: 8 hrs 32min

16. A Toast to Murder 12/31
TIME: 8 hrs 28min

Total=somewhere over 100+ hours (132+ maybe?)

[Gabby]

I like the way the challenge is done at the moment. It is open and makes it comfortable to read what ever you want.

What Else Are You Gonna Do?: 50+ hours to start aiming for somewhere between that and Are you mad? Do you need help?! 150+hrs (Yeh I admit it was a little long).
95hrs 44mins/150+hrs

★Ten Days In A Mad House 3hrs 24mins 2/12
★The Dragon's Magical Bride 4hrs 6mins 4/12
★The Boy Who Made the World Disappear 2hrs 48mins 4/12
★The Eighth Realm 9hrs 16mins 6/12
★Fate 48mins 6/12
★Young Offender 7hrs 55mins 7/12
★The Yin to His Yang 4hrs 23mins 7/12
★The Gingerbread Witch 5hrs 36mins 7/12
★The Great Christmas Knit Off 9hrs 22mins 10/12
★Beauty and the Bigfoot Hunter 3hrs 39mins 13/12
★Born 13hrs 15mins 12/12
★Enid Blyton's Christmas Tales 5hrs 23mins 15/12
★Bunker Core 9hrs 4mins 18/12
★White Boots 6hrs 26mins 20/12
★Christmas Treats: Contains 29 classic Blyton tales 4hrs 41mins 23/12
★The Christmasaurus 5hrs 38mins 24/12

[Vanessa Gayle ⚔️]

I also like the way things are for the challenge at the moment. =)

Levels:
Easy: 8+ hours
Medium: 12+ hours
Hard: 20+ hours
Way Too Long: 30+ hours
What Else Are You Gonna Do?: 50+ hours
Permanent Distraction!: 100+ hrs

🎧Fire Falling ◾ 12 hours 1 minute ◾ 12/1
🎧Earth's End ◾ 10 hours 52 minutes ◾ 12/1
🎧Water's Wrath ◾ 12 hours 16 minutes ◾ 12/1
🎧Crystal Crowned ◾ 13 hours 44 minutes ◾ 12/2
🎧Dark Storm ◾ 7 hours 23 minutes ◾ 12/4
🎧Cursed Angel ◾ 6 hours 53 minutes ◾ 12/6
🎧Broken Skies ◾ 6 hours 21 minutes ◾ 12/7
🎧Crown of Midnight ◾ 12 hours 43 minutes ◾ 12/9
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Total listening time: 82 hours 13 minutes

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

Everyone, thank you so much for letting me know what you like about this challenge. It will stay the same for 2023 :)