Lately I’m listening to soo many audiobooks! So why not talk about them!

When I was younger we sometimes listened to audiobooks while we were in the car driving to another country for vacation. At some point we stopped, and I did not listen to audiobook until the end of 2016.

That’s when I learned a lot about the ‘book’ community, I learned about booktube and bookstagram and became obsessed haha. On booktube there is a lot of talk about audiobooks, and I get interested. I knew my family had an account on Storytell (Dutch audiobook app), so I decided to just try one out. I started with listening to Ready Player One, and really loved it! But it took my sooo long before I finished an audiobook; this was before the time I learned you could change the speed of the audiobook. I also did not know when to listen, in that time I only travelled a short while before I was at my internship. This long time before I finished an audiobook was a bit demotivating for me, and I only listened to one book a month or something.

Then my schedule changed and I needed to bike 30 min to and from school, this increased the amount of audiobooks I listened to in a month by a lot. I still was not always in the middle of an audiobook, sometimes I just preferred to listen to music instead of a book.

But slowly I started to get really obsessed by audiobooks, and I learned you could change the speed of the audiobook, which I personally really enjoy. And now I’m always in the middle of an audiobook. I still sometimes listen to music instead of a book, but every time I do that I’m missing my book or something haha.

What I want from an audiobook:

Good narrator – If the narrator has an annoying voice I quickly stop listening to the book or I continue but find my thoughts wandering of quite a lot and have no clue what the book is actually about.
The voice has to fit the story – This has kinda to do with the first point, but even if the voice is not annoying but it does not fit the character
Book length – This is a really personal preference, but I find that if an audiobook is really long I lose my attention near the end of the book. So I would never listen to a book like Game of thrones..
Easy book – Another personal preference, but I sometimes lose my focus while listen to an audiobook, so I prefer it if the book is not too difficult, so that even if I forget to listen for a couple of minutes I still know what is going on. But I have to say recently I’ve started to listen to more fantasy books, which I qualify as ‘difficult’ for an audiobook.

Audiobooks I would like to listen to:

I’m currently working my through Rick Riordan books, I still have one Magnus Chase books and the Trials of Apollo series to go. Maybe after that I will listen to the Kane chronicles and the Heroes of Olympus, but for both of those I’m not sure if I want to read them.
I’ve listened to the first four books in the Talon series, and the audiobook for the fifth book will soon be on Storytell, so I will definitely listen to that!
Daughter of the pirate king and daughter of the siren queen, I’ve heard really good things about these audiobooks, so I’m quite excited for those.
The raven cycle, I’ve already read this series, but I feel like rereading so I thinking about trying out the audiobooks.
Magisterium series, idk why but I feel like listening to this series.
I also really feel like listening to Ace of Shades, again no significant reason.

But every time I scroll through the app there are new books I feel like listening to!