Hey guys! It's Trina and I am doing
another tag video today. Today I will be
doing the Audiobook Tag version 2.0.
This tag was created by Today In Jen's
Library and SolMeansSun. I was
actually tagged to do this one by one of
the creators, Jen, and I also got a
comment on one of my audiobook videos
from somebody asking me to please do
this tag. So, I thought it was very
fitting for me and I'm going to be doing it.
So the first question is: name a book that was better on audio.
For me that is The Inheritance Cycle series by
Christopher Paolini. I read the first
book, Eragon, I read this one in the print
format and I didn't like it at all but I
wanted to continue the series and see
what it was all about so I ended up just
switching formats to the audiobooks of
the last three books in this series and
I enjoyed the story so much more. So I
definitely feel like this story was one that
was better in the audio version for me personally.
Question 2 is: Name a book that was worse on audio than in print format and you switched.
So, I don't think I've ever had an instance of me
switching from the audiobook to the
print book, but an audiobook that I
thought was better in print format even
though I did not switch was A Darker
Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. I originally
read the print format of this and I
really really enjoyed it, and I recently
listened to the audiobook of it as a
reread because so that I could kind of refresh
my memory of what actually happened in
this book because I'm hoping to continue
the series soon. I really did not like
the narration of this book. The
narrator's voice acting was not good. It
was especially really horrible with the
character of Lila. He just made her sound
childish, everything she said sounded
like it was a question, he had no emotion
in her character. Other people have loved
it but for me it just didn't work. I
definitely prefer the print version over the audiobook.
The third question is: Who is your top female narrator and your top male narrator?
I'm not yet at the point in my audiobook journey where
there is like one narrator who I just
listen to any book that he or she
narrates because I love their voice so
much, so I haven't actually ever sought
out an audiobook just because of who the
narrator was. And I usually am not even
aware that if I'm listening to someone
that I've heard narrate a book in
the past, I'm usually not even aware
it's the same person. But I do have a
couple of narrators that have done my
favorite performances and I talked about
them in my favorite audiobooks video. It
was Will Patton, who does the Raven Cycle
series by Maggie Stiefvater. I thought
that his voice and his tone really fit
that series. And then as for the female
narrator that I have loved the most, that
is definitely January Lavoy, who does
The Diviners series by Libba Bray.
Her voice acting and her narration were
so phenomenal that I definitely would
love to listen to more done by her.
Question 4 is: What's the longest book that you've ever listened to?
I get all of my audio books from the library so I don't
have a way to like go back and
conveniently look up every single book I
listened to's timestamp. Like, I don't know
how many hours and minutes they were but as
far as page count, the longest book I
listened to is A Storm of Swords by
George RR Martin, which is 1,170 pages long.
The next question is: What is the shortest book that you've listened to?
Technically, if we count novellas it
was Pale Kings and Princes, which is from
the Shadowhunters Academy bind up of
novellas. I did listen to all the 10
stories in that bind up individually
because I listened to them before that
one book bind up was even released. It's
like a 40 page long novella so it was
probably like an hour long, if that. But
if we aren't counting novellas in that,
then the shortest actual book that I
have listened to the audiobook for was
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire,
which is like 170 something pages long.
It's a very short book. I love that
audiobook by the way. I would definitely recommend it!
Question 6 is: How do you listen to your audiobooks? Do you listen with an ipod, an mp3 player, your phone? And what kind of earbuds do you like?
So first of all, all of my audiobooks that
I get these days are from the Overdrive
app, which is a free app that you can
download on your phone or whatever smart
device you have and it partners with
your library. My library and my Overdrive
usually have a ton that I want. I just
check it out, it downloads it to my phone,
and I listen using just my phone. I don't
use anything else. I usually listen at
home where I can just put it on full
blast. My husband doesn't care. He's never
paying attention to what I listen to.
Very rarely do I ever listen to audioboos
using earbuds but like if I'm
traveling like on a plane or a car trip
then yeah I would take those little... I don't
know what they're called. They're just
called earbuds. They're white. I literally know
nothing about different types of earbuds, so yeah.
Listen on my phone, using the Overdrive app,
usually without any kind of headphones or earbuds.
The next question is: Should authors narrate their own books?
In my opinion, if the book is a
memoir or an autobiography about the
author's life, I do think it's great for
them to read it themselves. I have really
enjoyed listening to like celebrity
memoirs where they read their own story
because it's a very genuine connection
that you have with that person telling
their own life story in the way that they
meant to tell it. As for fiction books, do
I think that authors should narrate the
audiobooks of their books? No, I don't,
unless the author has experience with
voice acting. You could argue that
the author would know their characters
the best and they would know exactly
how they meant that line to be delivered but I
know how easily bad or inexperienced
narration can sound and can impact my
enjoyment of listening to an audiobook
so I feel like I would just rather leave
it to the professional voice actors to
be the ones narrating an audiobook.
Question 8 is: Is there an audiobook that you wish could be redone, and which narrator would you want to redo it?
So, I've already mentioned this one but I just
kind of want to throw it out there.
I kind of feel like Will Patton would have
done a good job with A Darker Shade of
Magic. But since I've already talked about
that book, my real answer is going to be
A World Without You by Beth Revis.
I don't remember who the narrator of this one
was but I really did not enjoy the audio
of this one. He narrated it in just a
very dull and monotonous, lifeless voice
and I have no idea if that's just how he
narrated or if he was doing that to be
like a personality trait of the main
character, because that narrator does
have like a hundred audiobooks that
he's worked on in the past and
apparently he's good enough to like keep
getting jobs, but I did not like the
narration of that book, and I never
did switch formats because I just was
wondering if it's a problem with the
narration or with the storytelling so I
was afraid to like risk it and just end
up DNFing the book because it's
just easier for me to finish audio books
because they're just quicker, easier for me to get through.
I have no idea what audiobook narrator I
would have liked to do that one instead
though. I just think that I might have
enjoyed that audiobook better if it had been a different narrator.
Question 9 is: What's the best audio book that you have listened to or your favorite?
I have a whole video on that! I've got a video of
my six all-time favorite audiobooks,
which are all things that I listened to
prior to this year, but some of my
favorites from this year have been
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel,
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire,
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, but I would not
recommend that one if you are going
to be triggered by rape or suicide
because it deals those topics in a very
heavy way, but the audiobook quality was amazing.
Number 10: What's the most recent audio book that you've listened to?
So I am currently listening to Waking
Gods by Sylvain Neuvel, which is the
sequel to Sleeping Giants, and I was
listening to The Chemist by Stephenie
Meyer, like literally this morning I was
listening to that audiobook and then my
hold for Waking Gods came in and I was
like, "Nope! See ya later, Stephenie Meyer,
I love this series better," so I just kind
of hopped on to Waking Gods and I'm
already like an hour into the book. Like, I love it a lot.
And then the bonus question in this tag is:
What is a book that is currently not on audio that you wish was?
See, I don't know every single audio book that exists out there
but I know one that my library is not
able to get on Overdrive, at least not
yet, is The Song Rising by Samantha
Shannon. This is the third book in her
Bone Season series and I enjoyed the
first two books in that series but I did
not like the writing. It was tough for me
to get through. It was very very wordy
and then something big would happen in
the end that would like pay off, and now
that the third book is out I'm just like
not really interested in continuing the
series because I don't want to slog
through that. I'm learning that that's
just not a writing style that fits me.
In cases like that, audiobooks do help me
get through a book or something that I
find intimidating that is long when it's
very wordy. If I'm not really liking
the print version of it sometimes the
audio version will help, so I do wish
that there were an audiobook format
available for me from my library because
I think that that would help me get
through it. However, at this point in time
I don't really know how likely I would be
to pick it up even if it were available
because I think I just kind of lost
interest in the premise that that whole
series is about, so I really don't know
but that's just one that I knew of off
the top of my head that my library does
not have available. The only book that I
know for sure, one hundred percent, does
not have an audio version available is
Unblemished from Sara Ella, because I asked
her hey are you going to have an
audiobook? And she said no, that her
publisher just did not have that
available at this time, that they would
want to in the future. I do wish that her
book would get an audio version because
I think that would make it more
accessible. So that's it for all of the
questions in this tag and I'm going to
ask all of you guys to please answer the
first question, what is a book that you
thought was better on audio? If you don't
read audiobooks (or can't compare) that's fine, you can
just comment something else. Thank you so
much for watching and I will see you in the comments. Bye!
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