If you love books and just don’t have enough time or energy to read, bookish podcasts are your best bet. Whether you’re hoping to learn what book you want to read next, you want something read to you, or you just like hearing literary conversation, a podcast is an easy way to get your literary …
Audiobooks
Asian media has been exponentially growing in popularity. This trend is timely as a wave of discrimination against Asians has increased, and, as the Journal of Medical Internet Research points out, the media plays an important role in reinforcing stereotypes and perceptions. Uplifting Asian voices is vital now, and what better way to do so than by …
Sci-fi novels lend themselves particularly well to the audiobook format. The atmosphere that can be created so elegantly by a single voice in your head really enhances the sci-fi tropes of isolation, artificial intelligence, and discovery. This also means that sci-fi audiobooks are something of a double-edged sword. Unless they’re performed perfectly by the right …
When we think of fantasy books, a few ideas and images start popping off in our minds like fireworks: war, politics, magic, adventure. The best fantasy audiobooks are imbued with enough energy and bombast to carry those big ideas. We also think of length. Most fantasy books are of a pretty impressive length (the word …