{"id":3080,"date":"2018-09-23T14:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:36:51","slug":"audiobooks-in-a-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/2018\/09\/23\/audiobooks-in-a-modern-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks in a modern world. Has storytelling come full circle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you think about audiobooks?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

We resisted them for a long time\u2014partly out of habit, and partly out of the idea that listening to an audiobook isn\u2019t reading<\/i>. It\u2019s letting someone tell you a story.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then it hit us. That\u2019s the best thing about them.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Books didn\u2019t come first in the evolution of story. Narration<\/i> did: the mythologies we dreamed up by firelight in the caves of our ancestors; the fairytales we invented to pass long, winter nights; the magical hopes and dreams we shared beneath the harvest moon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The magic of books came later, when we began to write them down. But books weren\u2019t the first<\/i> magic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the modern world doesn\u2019t believe in magic, so audiobooks have been reinvented as time savers<\/i>. They let us read while driving, or cooking dinner, or mowing the lawn. (And it\u2019s true. They do.) But that\u2019s exactly how a lot of them are narrated: like a multi-tasking tool<\/i>, divorced from the laughter, suspense, tragedy, and hope that lie at the heart of every great story.<\/span><\/p>\n

So we\u2019re on a mission: to find the best audiobooks on the market and share them with you. <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

We\u2019ll review each underlying story, like we always have, but we\u2019ll also tell you what we thought of the narration itself. Was it lyrical or dry? Monotone or captivating? How did the narrator handle the dialog? The tension? The mood<\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll still read old-fashioned books. And we\u2019ll keep reviewing them. But we\u2019re excited to be adding audiobooks to our review list<\/a>. We hope you\u2019ll be excited, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tell us what you think!<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

Do you listen to audiobooks? Love them? Hate them? How do they fit into your reading life? Tell us in the comments!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you think about audiobooks?\u00a0 We resisted them for a long time\u2014partly out of habit, and partly out of the idea that listening to an audiobook isn\u2019t reading. It\u2019s letting someone tell you a story. And then it hit us. That\u2019s the best thing about them. 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