Audiobooks are the best! I started listening to audiobooks after I started my career and couldn't find time to sit and read. Listening was a fun way to consume books as I commuted to work or cooked or cleaned. My favorite audiobook experience is The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy. Check it out!
I am a big fan of audiobooks. I find, lately - and with some level of shame - it's the only way I can get through certain reads. Available time in the evening is usually lost to catching up on what I've let drop during the day (laundry, personal email, Chicken Scratch), but time while traveling to some meeting or other allows for long, uninterrupted stretches of "reading."
Remind me, sometime, to tell you about how terribly lost I was at one of those recent meetings. What a mess!
The astrologists were right on this month! Expect "exciting offers ... good reviews!" Sounds about right to me, Rebecca. And I would dearly love to see you set your hand to fiction, 50-word or otherwise. You certainly have the creativity for it.
Frank Skinners version of 12 days of Christmas is hysterical. I couldn't stop laughing 🤣. Also enjoy audiobooks and agree some books need to be read particularly those authors I enjoy their use of language. Because I get to "read" while driving, exercising or completing household tasks I am able to read more which I would rather do anyway.
And you already know I'm in love with audiobookS for which I thank my friend, author Matthew Harffy, for sending me down that track a few years ago.
Spotify are planning on doing AI voices for books - as a writer with them, I received an email informing me of that fact the other day. I was FURIOUS! I spent days listening to wonderful audio voice -talent whilst looking for a narrator for my first ever audiobook and I am aghast for the sake of those magnificent real voices. I won't buy anything that's AI generated.
Dec 15, 2023·edited Dec 17, 2023Liked by Rebecca Holden
I've never listened to an audio book as my mind is both jumpy (I can leap to the end of a book in a single bound with a summary even before reading the first chapter) and focused (meticulously reading every word and neatly filing all of it in a large imaginary word/sentence/paragraph/chapter vessel, layering each new thing on top of another) when I read, always hearing my voice reading throughout. I'm wary of audio books, but this post is like an encouraging nudge to give it a go . . . My hesitancy is wondering if whatever voice I'll be listening to, is reading it right (correctly). 🤔
I have a number of audio books as I used to have to commute about 1 hour to work. Certainly it took that long going home! It made me not mind the commute as much.
Audiobooks are the best! I started listening to audiobooks after I started my career and couldn't find time to sit and read. Listening was a fun way to consume books as I commuted to work or cooked or cleaned. My favorite audiobook experience is The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy. Check it out!
Happy letteraversary to you both. :).
"Letterospective..." 😅
I am a big fan of audiobooks. I find, lately - and with some level of shame - it's the only way I can get through certain reads. Available time in the evening is usually lost to catching up on what I've let drop during the day (laundry, personal email, Chicken Scratch), but time while traveling to some meeting or other allows for long, uninterrupted stretches of "reading."
Remind me, sometime, to tell you about how terribly lost I was at one of those recent meetings. What a mess!
The astrologists were right on this month! Expect "exciting offers ... good reviews!" Sounds about right to me, Rebecca. And I would dearly love to see you set your hand to fiction, 50-word or otherwise. You certainly have the creativity for it.
The astrology! The road lines!
A great letter. Hopefully Terry will go in search of the lines, I’m sure he will also provide some good headlines. Yours were priceless!
Frank Skinners version of 12 days of Christmas is hysterical. I couldn't stop laughing 🤣. Also enjoy audiobooks and agree some books need to be read particularly those authors I enjoy their use of language. Because I get to "read" while driving, exercising or completing household tasks I am able to read more which I would rather do anyway.
Love the car clamps! Karma?
And you already know I'm in love with audiobookS for which I thank my friend, author Matthew Harffy, for sending me down that track a few years ago.
Spotify are planning on doing AI voices for books - as a writer with them, I received an email informing me of that fact the other day. I was FURIOUS! I spent days listening to wonderful audio voice -talent whilst looking for a narrator for my first ever audiobook and I am aghast for the sake of those magnificent real voices. I won't buy anything that's AI generated.
Sorry - rant over.
Keep writing those super letters!
I've never listened to an audio book as my mind is both jumpy (I can leap to the end of a book in a single bound with a summary even before reading the first chapter) and focused (meticulously reading every word and neatly filing all of it in a large imaginary word/sentence/paragraph/chapter vessel, layering each new thing on top of another) when I read, always hearing my voice reading throughout. I'm wary of audio books, but this post is like an encouraging nudge to give it a go . . . My hesitancy is wondering if whatever voice I'll be listening to, is reading it right (correctly). 🤔
I fall asleep to audiobooks. Sigh. Clamping makes me nervous.
Clever video, and most chortleworthy. And thanks for the information about the audiobooks. I will respond in due course.😆
That video was so very funny! Thank you for that!
I have a number of audio books as I used to have to commute about 1 hour to work. Certainly it took that long going home! It made me not mind the commute as much.