Audiobook Café

On today's episode: Being an author is typically thought of as a lonesome affair, but it doesn’t need to be. Enter the strange world of co-authoring. Karen McKay and Theresa Power of CELA join us to help break it down.

Emily Wu Zeller is our featured narrator this week on Know Your Narrator and Sarah Hillis is here for the second half of the show.

And, somewhere in there, we’ll of course find time for this week’s question to the book club: what books give you wintery vibes? Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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It’s a rapid-fire review bonanza and Ramya, Nisreen and Jacob are finally participating; Julie Martin, Community Reporter on AMI's Kelly and Ramya, joins us to get it all started. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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On this week's episode: Sometimes, we need to take a step back from our busy lives and just appreciate the simple things.

And what better way to do that than by immersing yourself in the living world of greenery and beautiful landscapes?

If you’re not an outdoors person, the next best thing is reading books about the wild. We wanted a guest to help us with this topic and it only felt natural that that had to be none other than Lawrence Gunther of Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther.

Plus, our very own audiobook curator, Aamer Khan, joins us with this month’s recommendations, with the theme, Magic, Mythology and Malaysia. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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Red Széll, host of My Life in Books with Red Széll, is with us, all the way from some place called England.

Drawing on his years of experience as host of My Life in Books on AMI-audio, interviewing countless authors, it’s safe to say he’s somewhat of an expert on what makes authors tick. Looking forward to getting into it with Red.

Plus, we have more responses to our most recent question to the book club: What are books that left you with strong mixed feelings? (i.e., books that had you equally enthralled and frustrated.) That’s for later though. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians

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Is our obsession with rigidly classifying every book into a set list of genres a bad habit that desperately needs breaking? That’s a loaded question.

There are no doubt a whole lot of issues that come with our feverish compulsion to sort everything, and that’s what we’ll be talking about today.

Later, we’ll be getting into some responses to our book club question: What are some books that left you with strong mixed feelings? (i.e., a book that left you equally enthralled and frustrated.) Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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We’re discussing the always-fascinating fantasy author, Brandon Sanderson, who’s fully embraced the audiobook revolution despite using his massive platform to condemn what he calls, “Audible's unconscionable business practices,” and

casually breaking the record for the most successful Kickstarter campaign of all time in the process.

And later, Sarah Hillis drops in for our Know Your Narrator segment; Edoardo Ballerini is our featured narrator this week. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians

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Karen and Theresa of CELA, the Center for Equitable Library Access, join us for another book review, this time for the highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears.

And later, Aamer Khan shares with us three authors that have piqued his interest in the past month. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians

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Dave Brown, of the world-famous NOW with Dave Brown, which airs live weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern on AMI-tv, joins us for an in-depth review of Success by Martin Amos (where our quote of the week is from), one of his very own book recommendations .

Later on, Jacob and I continue our recommendations with more of our personal favourites. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians

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This week, we finally take a moment to present our own book recommendations, in the thriller/mystery and non-fiction categories. On the second half of the show, Greg David, Communications Specialist at AMI, is subjected to the Rapid-Fire-Review segment. He also gives us his in-depth review of Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre. Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians

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Karen and Theresa make their monthly appearance on the show. This time, we discuss the many reasons why so many people read horror. Why do we willingly want to feel fear and discomfort? There’s a lot to unpack. Plus, Sarah Hillis presents/raves about one of our personal favourite narrators, Julia Whelan, as part of our Know Your Narrator segment Audiobook Café broadcasts on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes two

back-to-back podcast episodes every Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

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