After talking about it for months, it’s finally time for our first Speaking of Audiobooks 2011 Listening Challenge. In November five of our listeners started working with me to design a Listening Challenge everyone can enjoy…
Our holiday season in Oklahoma is in full swing and I’m finding myself busy with gift buying, decorating, and planning several trips to see family from Christmas through New Year’s. Ours will be an old fashioned…
The last category in My Unofficial Personal Listening Challenge for 2010 was Fantasy – another genre I tended to avoid. I chose Karen Marie Moning’s Darkfever knowing that it would also challenge me as a series…
Discovering earlier this year that more of Lisa Kleypas’ backlist was scheduled for future audiobook release, the romance audio enthusiast inside of me was ecstatic. Back in my first days of reading romance I read every…
The monthly process of discovering upcoming romance audiobook releases remains a puzzling process, make no mistake, but one I’m determined to solve piece by piece. As we’ve discussed before, there is no “list” for one to…
Over the past months, our discussions have included a good bit of brainstorming on additional audiobook features we, as listeners, would enjoy here at AAR. Today we’re continuing that discussion by zeroing in on a 2011…
Listening to those old tape cassettes – it seemed like such a good idea when I reported my favorable experience in the September Releases Speaking of Audiobooks column. But that was before I started listening to…
Although Speaking of Audiobooks is a relatively young column, our archives contain a tremendous amount of information relating to romance audiobooks. Yes, the actual columns do comprise a fair amount of this content but the greater…
In my search for those hard-to-find romance audiobook gems, I recently found myself happily buying several in cassette tape format. Ah, the joys (or should I say with our present day technology – the challenges) of…
As I read praise of Nora Roberts latest audiobook release, The Search, from our readers here at Speaking of Audiobooks, I once again contemplated trying out a few of her audiobooks. I listened to one Roberts…