I recently had a similar experience with audiobooks! It felt like my brain was broken and I typically do at least 60% of my reading in audio format. For me it wasn’t the speed, but I just found that I would get sleepy even if I was enjoying the content. So I decided to listen in 10-20 min intervals, which just so happened to work for the short chapters in The Invisible Life of Addie Larue!
So glad you found a pace that works for you! I have a similar mindset: the goal is for me to enjoy the listening experience, whether that's at 1.2x or 1.8x ☺️
I can definitely see the benefit in slowing down my audiobook speed, I've been experimenting with that lately as well. I've always listened at 2.0 but it does create a sense of rushing sometimes. A favorite audiobook of mine this year is The Vaster Wilds, the narrator was January LaVoy and it was perfection!
I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks while crocheting lately and I definitely benefit from listening at a slower speed. You are so right, the slower pace feels calming.
Thank you for your recs! I'm currently listening to It Happened One Christmas by Chantel Guertin. I really enjoyed Gigi, Listening by the same author earlier this year. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin was probably my favorite audiobook of 2023.
Currently listening to (riveting) Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney.
Favorite audiobooks this year:
Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton (fiction)
Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller (nonfiction)
An Immense World, by Ed Yong (nonfiction)
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt (poetry)
How to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz (nonfiction)
Two of my all-time audio faves that I listened to last year: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan. And Foster, by the same author. Both are fiction. Foster is a novella on which the film "The Quiet Girl" was based. That is wonderful, too!
I loved Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge by Helen Ellis, read by the author. Hilarious and short - I got through it on a Saturday doing chores.
I recently had a similar experience with audiobooks! It felt like my brain was broken and I typically do at least 60% of my reading in audio format. For me it wasn’t the speed, but I just found that I would get sleepy even if I was enjoying the content. So I decided to listen in 10-20 min intervals, which just so happened to work for the short chapters in The Invisible Life of Addie Larue!
So glad you found a pace that works for you! I have a similar mindset: the goal is for me to enjoy the listening experience, whether that's at 1.2x or 1.8x ☺️
I can definitely see the benefit in slowing down my audiobook speed, I've been experimenting with that lately as well. I've always listened at 2.0 but it does create a sense of rushing sometimes. A favorite audiobook of mine this year is The Vaster Wilds, the narrator was January LaVoy and it was perfection!
Always happy to see audiobook recommendations!
I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks while crocheting lately and I definitely benefit from listening at a slower speed. You are so right, the slower pace feels calming.
Thank you for your recs! I'm currently listening to It Happened One Christmas by Chantel Guertin. I really enjoyed Gigi, Listening by the same author earlier this year. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin was probably my favorite audiobook of 2023.
Currently listening to (riveting) Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney.
Favorite audiobooks this year:
Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton (fiction)
Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller (nonfiction)
An Immense World, by Ed Yong (nonfiction)
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt (poetry)
How to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz (nonfiction)
Two of my all-time audio faves that I listened to last year: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan. And Foster, by the same author. Both are fiction. Foster is a novella on which the film "The Quiet Girl" was based. That is wonderful, too!