For months, the only thing I could manage to lose myself in was the French version of Harry Potter, and only then because my listening skills were rusty enough that maybe only 63% of it had any chance of making it to my brain-43%, if any of the characters given a lisp by narrator Bernard Giraudeau were talking. After putting the bow on my last big audiobook piece to go up back before any of us understood just how deeply this whole thing would end up being this whole thing ( “An Expert’s Guide to Finding and Listening to Amazing Audiobooks While Social Distancing”), I hit the biggest reading roadblock of my life. But whereas previous years saw the boom in audio-forward storytelling rise to meet the audio-friendly spaces created by increasingly long commutes and the cultural pressure to consume more content, more of the time, 2020 found most of us at home, bereft of both the moments we might have previously set aside for extended listening, and the mental bandwidth to consume much of any longform audio content at all.Īt least, that was my experience. As has been the case for the last many years, the audiobook scene only got richer and more ambitious as 2020 rolled on.
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