56: Learning to Love Audiobooks Reading Through Life

Show notes:
In this episode, we’re digging into audiobooks. The good, the bad, and everything in between. We share our favorite fiction and nonfiction audiobook recs, our thoughts on the controversy surrounding audiobooks, the pros and cons of audiobooks, and tips for how to get started with audiobooks. How many times can we say audiobooks in one episode description? To paraphrase Michael Scott, you have no idea how high we can fly. 
 
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Find the time stamped show notes below with links to all of the fun things we mentioned.
 
Bookish Goodies:
[3:40] Sarah - RTL Reading Quiz: Are you Team Sarah or Team Mia? 
[4:14] Mia - RTL long-sleeved tee
 
Our FAVORITE Audiobook:
[15:12] Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | Amazon // Bookshop
 
Fiction Audiobook Recs: 
[17:00] Mia:
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch | Amazon // Bookshop 
There’s Something About Merry by Codi Hall | Amazon // Bookshop
Winders by Ryan O’Nan | Amazon // Bookshop
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery | Amazon // Bookshop
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong | Amazon // Bookshop
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Amazon // Bookshop
Circe by Madeline Miller | Amazon // Bookshop
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness | Amazon // Bookshop
 
[17:34] Sarah:
Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston | Amazon // Bookshop
Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews | Amazon // Bookshop
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi | Amazon // Bookshop
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt | Amazon // Bookshop
Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell | Amazon // Bookshop
 
Nonfiction Audiobook Recs:
[18:10] Mia:
Know My Name by Chanel Miller | Amazon // Bookshop
Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie | Amazon
A Promised Land by Barack Obama | Amazon // Bookshop
Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton | Amazon // Bookshop
I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey | Amazon // Bookshop
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara | Amazon // Bookshop
 
[19:06] Sarah:
Unprotected by Billy Porter | Amazon // Bookshop
Open Book by Jessica Simpson | Amazon // Bookshop
Mean Baby by Selma Blair | Amazon // Bookshop
Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott | Amazon // Bookshop
We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union | Amazon // Bookshop
Wild by Cheryl Strayed | Amazon // Bookshop
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey | Amazon // Bookshop
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost | Amazon // Bookshop
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl | Amazon // Bookshop
 
[20:12] Let’s Take a Trip:
Mia - Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon // Bookshop
Sarah - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt | Amazon // Bookshop
 
Other Mentions:
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley | Amazon // Bookshop
Strawberry Spring podcast, based on a short story by Stephen King



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