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6 Things Audiobooks Can Do That Books Can’t

There are so many advantages to an audiobooks download. Not only are they an increasingly popular way to enjoy books, there are a few other reasons why they are amazing. Here are 6 reasons why audiobooks are the best way to consume books!

1. Multi-Tasking
Audiobooks are great for finishing a book while completing other tasks around your home or office. You can enjoy having a book read to you while you work on another mindless task, such as washing dishes, going for a jog, or sitting in traffic. So make laundry fun, with an audiobooks download.

2. Provide Company
In a world that is full of people, we can sometimes still feel alone. This is where audiobooks can be a great companion. Need someone to accompany you on a long road trip? Audiobooks are great to take with you! Need a soothing voice to help you fall asleep? There are audiobooks for that too.

3. Make Reading Accessible for Everyone
The wide range of books that are available in audio format is incredible. Everyone regardless of their reading ability, eyesight, or physical or mental ability deserves the chances to escape into the worlds created by books. Audiobooks allow everyone to enjoy a good book!

4. Help Reluctant Readers Learn to Love Reading
Anyone who struggles to read, may not have had the privilege of experiencing the joys that can be found in books. Sometimes listening to books instead of reading them is the ticket to get them exposed to the joys of reading and the secrets that are contained within books.

5. Fit in Your Pocket
Audiobooks can be downloaded to your smartphone or an MP3 player, meaning that they can easily fit in your pocket and take it everywhere with you. You’ll never have to worry about not having your book with you, as they will be in your pocket!

6. Read in the Dark
Power out? Trying to sleep? No problem, audiobooks allow you to still enjoy your favorite books! Audiobooks can be consumed and enjoyed anywhere, at any time.

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A Bit Gentler…A little Kinder….”Medium Raw”, by Anthony Bourdain

Anyone who is familiar with food critic, Anthony Bourdain, is familiar with his most of the time brash and bawdy language when he is describing food and restaurant experiences. In his first book, Kitchen Confidential, there were many who criticized his, what they observed as, overuse of tawdry language. He contends that it was the descriptively best to use in rants about food and cooking failures along the way. After serving as a journeyman cook, he became a world traveler giving elaborate prose on what he has seen and heard from the most prestigious chefs in the world.

In his newer work, Medium Raw, it has been said that he is a bit gentler in his descriptive language, and just a little kinder to those that he had previously ripped apart. Some give kudos to his status change as a father to a three year old daughter. It was humorous to read that he is already educating his daughter as to the evils of American fast food. One quote had him telling her……the fast food industry is the enemy……that Ronald McDonald has cooties and stinks like…..poo! Poor child!

In Medium Raw, Bourdain gives a witty and insightful view of the culinary world. He describes the many changes that have taken place in the subculture of chefs, cooks, the restaurant business, and in his personal life in the ten years since he wrote Kitchen Confidential. One recommendation was to listen to an audio book version of the book. Hearing his own voice tell the stories gives the book another added dimension.

It was with great sadness that the world learned of Bourdain’s suicide by hanging in June of this year, while in France.

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A Possible Traitor In the Cabinet…”The President Is Missing”, by James Patterson & Bill Clinton

On his latest thriller, The President is Missing, James Patterson solicits the assistance of former President Bill Clinton to provide inside information about every day happenings in the life of someone holding the highest office in this country.

As the story begins, there are unprecedented threats against Washington, involving espionage and even the presence of a traitor among those in the President’s cabinet. Even the President becomes a suspect, then all of a sudden, the President disappears. President Jonathan Duncan is a former military hero, who now finds himself the object of a witch hunt. His daughter had a run in with a female assassin in France, so he decides that disappearing is best for the safety of his family and himself. The assassin is portrayed a little differently than most by being not just a female, but a pregnant female. Duncan must go into disguise to try to see who is setting him up.

The President is Missing gets mixed reviews, some reviewers have not been too kind to the book because it is very slow in getting to the point.

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Taking the Reading to the Edge of Horror…”The Outsider”, by Stephen King

Once again, the “King” of horror and mystery author, Stephen King, has given his fan base another hit book in The Outsider. It has mystery, but also subject matter that will seem over the top for some readers. But, that is what the author thrives on……providing such subjects that take the reader to the edge of horror, then snapping them back to a sort of literary reality. When the victim is an eleven year old boy, that gives an indication of how distasteful the crime is.

There are several characters that are woven together in The Outsider. Some are victims, some appear to be perpetrators, but aren’t, and then some complete the stories. Oh yes, there will be no mention of the actual villain……the reader can find that out as they go.

The Outsider has been added to the top five Stephen King novels by some reviewers. One such review gave this order: (1) The Outsider; (2) Bag of Bones; (3) Revival; (4) Pet Semetary; (5) It
They add……that is how good this book is.

“King constructs a propulsive plot, and a race against time to uncover the identity of a terrifying and diabolical killer who has left victims…..and “perpetrators”……and across the country, and who is on his way to his next horrific act”.

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Accomplishing What His Predecessors Could Not, “Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Bret Baier

Three Days in January, Fox News anchor and author, Bret Baier, gives an enlightening description of the leadership style of President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the beginning of the Cold War. In Baier’s new book, Three Days in Moscow, he gives a detailed look into the previous and post view of the Soviet Union, then Russia. President Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish what his predecessors could not.

On May 31, 1988, Reagan was the first American president to stand on Russian soil with thousands of people listening to him talk about human rights and freedom. He begged the Soviet people to join him in completing his new vision for the future. Less than a year later, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union began disintigrating. That end to the Cold War was a defining historical moment not to be forgotten.

Baier’s writing style is easy to read, and his research is very detailed without getting in the way of presenting the picture of Reagan and his accomplishments. It also shows the change made in American reporting of the news. It was with Reagan that news media started putting their own interpretation of the events happening in the Reagan administration. Prior to that time, the media sheltered Presidents from negative reporting and covered mostly positive situations. But, with Reagan, they all but ignored his great accomplishments and many times made him out to be an aging old clown. Of course, he was anything but that fraudulent description. Many would say that the “fake news” sources are doing the same to President Trump now. And they did the same to President George H. W. Bush. They always made their readers and audience think that he was not very intelligent. A very sad commentary for the importance of the truth.

President Ronald Reagan brought down a murderous, debilitating, and horrific regime without bombs or huge numbers of human lives being lost. It has been said that for that, he can never be given enough credit.

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Following Leads Wherever They May Take Her…”The 17th Suspect”, by James Patterson

Has something gone terribly wrong within the San Francisco Police Department itself? That is what Sergeant Lindsey Boxer is beginning to suspect as she investigates another methodical, but unpredictable murder. Once again, she gets too wrapped up into the current murder case, developing nasty medical symptoms and taking her queries outside of her jurisdiction, which is not sanctioned by her department. The Women’s Murder Club urges her to not get so personally involved in the case. With more lives at stake, she does not have the luxury of heeding their advice…….she must follow leads wherever they may take her.

The main characters, Yuki Castellano, and Boxer are racing against time to try to bring a murderer to justice. The homeless population is in extreme danger. Could their desperate situation have anything to do with the murders? That is what Boxer is trying to determine, so that the case can be successfully prosecuted by Yuki. Again, Lindsay’s Murder Club friends beg her to just let it go. But, they already know that doing so is not in her nature.

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Love Finds Them…”The Family Gathering”, by Robyn Carr

As with most stories about families, author, Robyn Carr, writes with such expression to describe the many complex situations that are found when a family comes together for an extended visit. There will always be laughter, and then shedding of tears, as pent up emotions are revealed.

The central character, Dakota Jones decides to visit with his family before heading on to the next phase of his life and adventure. He has every intention of visiting Sullivan’s Crossing, then moving on. But then he meets Sid, who has moved in to help her brother with his two children. She also tends bar at an establishment owned by her brother. She accepted the opportunity presented to her to try to recover from a very nasty divorce. As Dakota stops by the bar quite frequently, he quickly develops a friendship with Sid. Neither are in any hurry to leave after their meeting.

Author Carr is very adept at telling her stories in such a way that the reader can identify with the characters and their situations. Dakota is searching for his place in the world after military life. And, Sid is searching for her place in the world after an emotionally charged divorce. Neither were looking for love, but somehow through blended families, mental illnesses, betrayal, stalking, adoption, death, and so much more……love finds them.

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Secrets and Unexpected Discoveries…”The Fallen”, by David Baldacci

One would think of a small town in western Pennsylvania as being laid back, quiet, and safe. However, the town of Baronville seems to be anything but serene…….or safe. In the newest of the Memory Man series, author David Baldacci follows another case that is under investigation by the series team of Amos Decker and Alex Jamison.

On an ordinary visit to Alex’ sister, and during a conversation with his precocious eight year old niece, he is distracted by a flash in the neighbor’s window. Upon checking it out, they discover two dead male bodies, with no clear hint as to how they died. Little did they know that their finding was only the tip of the iceburg.
After discovering two bodies, the investigative duo must now battle extraneous forces to have a chance at solving the mystery murders. They are working in a very financially and economically depressed small town. The only hopeful business left is a huge, new Fulfillment Center. The town is hanging all hopes for an economic revival on that new Center. However, the discovery of the deaths leads to something very sinister, that may lead the pair of FBI Agents to certain destruction. The suspense is never ending, revealing secrets and unexpected discoveries…….the reader is hooked from page one.

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Nothing Can Break Her…”This is Me”, by Chrissy Metz

It must be pretty cathartic to be in a position to write a self-revealing book at the young age of 37 years. Such is the new book, This Is Me, a novel by Chrissy Metz, who is the star performer on the hugely popular tv serial, This Is Us. It has been described as alternating between instructional and autobiographical, and as presented in raw honesty. Through her life lessons, she has learned that both setbacks and successes can be valuable in moving through life.

Chrissy grew up in a large family, but out of nowhere, her father just disappeared one day. Her mother did her best, but they always felt the threat of possible hunger or that their electricity might be turned off. So, when her mother remarried, Chrissy felt excitement and hope that her family’s life would return to some normalcy. However, that hope was short-lived, as her step-father became very mentally, verbally, and physically abusive. He seemed to just hate her body…….he started weighing her at age 14. I always have to wonder where the mother was when things like this happen to step-children. He punched her, shoved her, yanked her wrist, but never hit her face. She said it was as though he was just offended by her body. She also says that the mistreatment by him made her realize that nothing can break her after living through his abuse.

This Is Me is a takeoff on her very successful television show on NBC, This Is Us. Viewers seem to see themselves in her character, Kate Pearson, no matter where they live or what they look like. The character, as well as the entertainer, makes her viewers and readers feel like they are spending time with a friend with whom they can identify with.

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5 Reasons to Listen to Audiobooks

For book lovers, there aren’t many things that can bring more satisfaction than finally finishing a book. Unfortunately, there isn’t always time to sit down with your favorite book in hand and read for hours on end. As a result, it can take longer to finish a book than it used to. This is where audio books come to the rescue. When you download audio books for free or pay for the latest releases, you get the benefit of finishing a much-beloved book in a condensed amount of time. Here are 5 reasons why you should start listening to audiobooks if you don’t already!

1. Preference
It is common knowledge that reading can be an ineffective way to process information. When you combine reading with listening to an audiobook, you are able to supplement what knowledge you already have with additional information. Combining reading with listening enables you to retain more information.

2. Better Retention
It is common knowledge that reading can be an ineffective way to process information. When you combine reading with listening to an audiobook, you are able to supplement what knowledge you already have with additional information. Combining reading with listening enables you to retain more information.

3. Save Time
Audio books are the perfect way to multitask and make effective use of your time. With audiobooks you are able to listen while you clean the house, fold laundry, make dinner and a multitude of other things that don’t require your complete, undivided attention. Audiobooks are especially effective when you are commuting, to help pass the time.

4. Effective
Some books, or genre of books, are easier to consume via an audiobook than a traditional book. Books that are dry or hard to follow when reading, can be easier to consume when you listen to them via audio. But try to find books that don’t require you to take notes or pay close attention to every last detail, as they can be hard to comprehend without the words to reinforce the audio.

5. Convenient
Audiobooks can be stored on your smartphone, computer or portable audio device. This enables you to listen to them wherever you are—in the car, the gym, the library or school. Due to their portability, it is easy to pick up and continue listening where you left off without having to worry about losing your place.

As you can see, there are many reasons why you should download audio books for free today. With almost every book available as an audiobook, you can find one that fits your taste and peaks your interest. Start listening to audiobooks today and see how often you can lose yourself in your favorite book!