I Read.
I read, a lot. I also listen to a lot of audio books.
What I don’t seem to get is why people think that audio books aren’t as time consuming as ‘real’ books. You spend just as much time listening to it as you would reading it, because it’s not being read any faster than a reader can read it. I enjoy audio for a lot of reasons, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t do in audio and I will end up reading the paper copies eventually.
I don’t know what the big deal is.
Anyway, the reason that I’m talking about reading and audio books is because I’ve been listening to a books podcast called Books On The Nightstand and absolutely LOVE it. I’ve gotten a few book recommendations from it that I normally wouldn’t have heard of or bothered picking up.
1) The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
2) The Magicians – Lev Grossman
So what’s the big deal? Well, BOTN is having a reading challenge. The challenge is to read 3 Dystopic Young Adult books. So, I’m going to take part in the DystopYA. Ironically, there is a second site that is hosting a similar challenge. Bart’s Bookshelf is doing the same thing, so I can do both. Bart’s is between 1 and 4, so I’ll probably do a total of 7. Three new books for each and one is a re-read.
My books:
1) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2) The Giver by Lois Lowry
3) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
4) Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
5) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
6) Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
*7) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The 7th book is starred because it’s a re-read of a favorite.
I’ve started on The Hungers Games and so far, it’s REALLY good.
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Thanks for all of your nice words about Books on the Nightstand, and for playing along with us on the DystopYA challenge.
As for audiobooks, I actually find that it takes me *longer* to listen to an audiobook than it does to read the physical book. But of course, that’s balanced by the fact that I can do something else while listening.