I started listening to audiobooks in the 90s when I found out you could rent them (on cassettes) at truck stops and return them at another truck stop in the same chain. So good for driving across Utah where there wasn't much radio! It was listening to MurderBot while mowing the lawn and so forth that really made them part of my daily life

I ended up choosing Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye which is a whopping 23 hours and 50 minutes! If we don't finish the thriller on the road trip, my sister and I go to the gym together every day so we can finish it on those trips. The narration has good reviews so I hope Mona enjoys it.

FWIW, my very first audiobooks consumed were Harry Potter. I listened to 7 novels in my car on FL/NY/FL trips! I had tried to read them without success previously but loved listening to them all.

Emmett and I listened to all the Jim Dale HP audiobooks on his commutes to school. A strong bonding experience with him.

The only other audiobook we really enjoyed was Pratchett's The Wee Free Men narrated by Stephen Briggs, which made us laugh out loud many times: [link]

I'm very not an audiobook person (it's too slow, even sped up, vs reading for me! And most of my available time is 10-20 minutes here and there, which is hard to remember the plot), but have found I sometimes enjoy a memoir read by the person--I've listened to that on long roadtrips where I had already binged all pending podcasts.

What I have lately become kind of addicted to is listening to the audiobook while I read the e-book. Takes some tinkering to get the speed comfortable but it really amps up my concentration. There's no sense in doing it if I'm going to be multi tasking or switching between things at all, though. my nephew told me it was something he did in college as a study aid and I thought it sounded impossible but turns out I really like it when I can do it. Amazon whispersync really works well for this, but I'm doing it manually with another sort of e-reader right now and it's fine

We listened to Andy Weir's Hail Mary on the drive up. And then for hours driving around town.

I thought the Hail Mary narration was delightful.

I love audiobooks but I am so picky about narrators that I will turn it off and then maybe never open that book again in any format because it has been POISONED. So it can be risky!

I'm supposed to be going back to the office 5 days a week in June though, so I'll definitely be stepping up my book and podcast listening time.

5 days a week! Ugh. I’m sorry.

I keep looking at Project Hail Mary and thinking that maybe I won’t read it but I’m pretty sure there’s no reason behind that, just me being weird. Y’all liked it?

t, I bounced off his other book after the Martian, but enjoyed Hail Mary, I think it was much more like the Martian. So depends on how you felt about that book, I guess.