{"id":50110,"date":"2015-09-03T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=50110"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:23:10","slug":"hear-good-things-four-of-the-latest-and-great-audiobooks-for-your-earballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/hear-good-things-four-of-the-latest-and-great-audiobooks-for-your-earballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Good Things: Four of the latest and greatest Audiobooks for your earballs."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"happy-smiling-man-listening-to-music-on-headphones-s\"<\/a>With a long drive to work, a busy workload and a severe case of reader’s\u00a0FOMO, I find myself listening<\/em> to as many books as I read these days.\u00a0Okay, not quite<\/em> as many, but I’m going through a couple of audiobooks a week at the moment, which is something I never thought I’d do.<\/p>\n

And you know what?\u00a0I’m loving it.<\/p>\n

Gone are those long hours staring at a sea of brake lights, listening to the radio as Fitzy or Jimbo\u00a0or Spanner or The Gregster give away tickets to a Nickleback concert.\u00a0Forgotten are the days of sitting on a cramped train trying to read a book while someone next to me shouts down the phone about patio furniture.<\/p>\n

I’m in a world of peace, with great reads\u00a0streaming into my earballs all week long. It’s really quite lovely, and I can’t recommend it enough.\u00a0Here are a few of my favourites…<\/p>\n

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\"go-set-a-watchman\"<\/a>Go Set A Watchman<\/h2>\n

Author: Harper Lee
\nNarrator: Reese Witherspoon<\/h3>\n

It was a big event\u00a0when Reese Witherspoon was announced as the narrator of the audiobook of Go Set a Watchman<\/a><\/em> (she also narrated the new edition of To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>) and listening to it, I see why. Witherspoon has a gorgeous Southern twang that adds so much to Watchman<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

As for the book itself, don’t listen to the critics, who judged it on a scale of\u00a0Mockingbird<\/em> or bust. Sure, it isn’t up to\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>\u00a0standards, but not much is. It’s still a great read. Or listen, in this case.<\/p>\n

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\"flesh-wounds-mp3-\"<\/a>Flesh Wounds<\/h2>\n

Author and Narrator: Richard Glover<\/h3>\n

Flesh Wounds<\/a><\/em> is one of my favourite books of the year. The funny, touching and often harrowing autobiography\u00a0of writer and broadcaster Richard Glover. Glover has been in the radio game for a long time and puts those golden tonsils to good use, narrating his memoir with appropriate conviction and poise.<\/p>\n

Great books don’t always translate into great audiobooks, but Flesh Wounds<\/a><\/em>\u00a0does in spades.<\/p>\n

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\"more-fool-me\"<\/a>More Fool Me<\/h2>\n

Author and Narrator:\u00a0Stephen Fry<\/h3>\n

Stephen Fry’s\u00a0More Fool Me<\/a><\/em> was one of my favourite books of last year, another wonderful addition\u00a0to his bestselling autobiographical series. I could listen to Stephen Fry talk about soup for days on end, let alone one of the most prolific and turbulent periods of his mighty career, the\u00a0late 80s and early 90s.<\/p>\n

The book is magnificent, as are\u00a0its stablemates Moab is My Washpot<\/a><\/em> and The Fry Chronicles<\/a>. <\/em>With Fry’s dulcet tones driving the story along, the audiobook is even better.<\/p>\n

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\"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-mp3-\"<\/a>A Short History Of Nearly Everything<\/h2>\n

Author:\u00a0Bill Bryson
\nNarrator: William Roberts<\/h3>\n

Oh Bill, you magnificent bastard. I love, love LOVE everything Bill Bryson does, but A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/a><\/em> is undoubtedly my favourite, and narrator William Roberts does a fine job pulling\u00a0Bryson’s infectious enthusiasm for knowledge from the page. Think of the most interesting podcast you’ve ever listened to, and make it 15 hours long. It’s a seemingly endless joy you can return to over and over again.<\/p>\n

If you’re new to audiobooks, A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/em> is the perfect place to start.<\/p>\n

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Like the sound of these sounds?<\/h4>\n

See more in Booktopia’s Audiobook Collection<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make. With a long drive to work, a busy workload and a severe case of reader’s\u00a0FOMO, I find myself listening to as many books as I read these days.\u00a0Okay, not quite as many, but I’m going through a couple of audiobooks a week at the moment, which is something I never thought I’d do. And you know what?\u00a0I’m loving it. Gone are those long hours staring at a sea of brake lights, listening to the radio as Fitzy or Jimbo\u00a0or Spanner or The Gregster give away tickets to a Nickleback concert.\u00a0Forgotten are the days of sitting on a cramped train trying to read a book while someone next to me shouts down the phone about patio furniture. I’m in a world of peace, with great reads\u00a0streaming into my earballs all week long. It’s really quite lovely, and I can’t recommend it enough.\u00a0Here are a few of my favourites… ——————————— Go Set A Watchman Author: Harper Lee Narrator: Reese Witherspoon It was a big event\u00a0when Reese Witherspoon was announced as the narrator of the audiobook of Go Set a Watchman (she also narrated the new edition of To Kill a Mockingbird) and listening to it, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[553,697],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55785,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110\/revisions\/55785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}