Narrated

This time on Narrated, we discussed our favorite biography and memoir audiobooks.

Round 1:

Shachi: Finding Me [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 198]

Lisa: Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

[Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 37]

Round 2:

Shachi: The Man Who Could Move Clouds [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa: A Mind Unraveled [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott:Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood [Audible] / [Episode 16]

Round 3:

Shachi: The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa: The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War's Most Daring Mission [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott: Jim Henson: The Biography [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Additional Picks:

Shachi: I Am Debra Lee, You Can't Be Serious, My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture, Dog Flowers, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Lisa: Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography, A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir

Scott: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, The Princess Diarist, Unprotected

Lisa & Scott discuss two recent novellas: The Mimicking of Known Successes written by Malka Older and narrated by Lindsey Dorcus; and The Scourge Between Stars written by Ness Brown and narrated by Bahni Turpin.

The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Scourge Between Stars [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Tea and Murder (including The Tea Master and the Detective) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Braking Day [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 155]

Lisa and Scott discuss a range of science fiction stories featuring artificial intelligence and discuss what these depictions can tell us about humanity and how we interact with the world.

References:

AI 2041 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Rossum's Universal Robots (Adaptation) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Robot (Series): The Caves of Steel [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

2001: A Space Odyssey [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

Robopocalypse [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

The Prey of Gods [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Arc of the Scythe (Series): Thunderhead [Audible]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Midnight Robber [Audible]

The Diamond Age [Audible]

The Mother Code [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Exhalation [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Cloud Cuckoo Land [Libro.fm] / [Episode 119]

Blade Runner (Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Murderbot Diaries (Series) All Systems Red [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Klara and the Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 110]

Speak [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Monk and Robot (Series): A Psalm for the Wild-Built [Audible] / [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 113]

A Closed and Common Orbit [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]/ [Audible]

Imperial Radch (Series): Ancillary Justice [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]/ [Audible]

CatNet (Series): Catfishing on CatNet [Audible]

The Terraformers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 190]

Meru [Audible]

World Running Down [Audible]

The Terraformers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Tea and Murder [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Machinehood [Overdrive/Libby] / [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Episode 120]

Bobiverse (series) [Audible]

When the Sparrow Falls [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Light From Uncommon Stars [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 141]

The Jesus Incident [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa and Scott discuss The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi written by Shannon Chakraborty and narrated by Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Daevabad Trilogy (Series) [Overdrive/Libby] / Libro.fm: [The City of Brass] [The Kingdom of Copper] [The Empire of Gold] / [Audible]

A Master of Djinn [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Shachi and Scott discuss the award-winning Finding Me, written and narrated by Viola Davis.

Finding Me [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [https://www.audible.com/pd/Finding-Me-Audiobook/B09F4X96MC">Audible]

2023 Audie Winners

The Monsters We Defy [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Unprotected: A Memoir [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Fairy Tale [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [https://www.audible.com/pd/Fairy-Tale-Audiobook/B09R62PV4B">Audible] / [Episode 197]

You Can't Be Serious [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 130]

Mark and Scott discuss Hugo Award nomination thoughts (not necessarily the categories you'd think) and recent listens including Fairy Tale, written by Stephen King and narrated by Seth Numrich and Stephen King.

Fairy Tale [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Our Favorite Audiobooks of 2022 [Episode 184]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) [IMDb]

Andor (2022-) [IMDb]

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) [IMDb]

WandaVision (2021) [IMDb]

Dune (2021) [IMDb]

Ms. Marvel (2022) [IMDb]

Severance (2022-) [IMDb]

The Expanse (2015-2022) [IMDb]

The Expanse: Dragon Tooth (Graphic Novels) [Kickstarter]

Hugo, Girl!

Hugos There Podcast

Micro SF/F stories

The Golden Enclaves [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 174]

Stellarlune [Audible] / [Episode 183]

Gilbert joined Lisa & Scott to discuss reading challenges including how we approach setting and tracking reading goals, finding time to read or listen, and other tips for reaching your reading goals.

Referenced Audiobooks:

Memory's Legion [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Contact - Unabridged [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Contact - Abridged [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Miracle and Wonder [Libro.fm] [Overdrive/Libby] [Audible]

A Master of Djinn [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

A Dead Djinn in Cairo [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed VenCo, written by Cherie Dimaline and narrated by Michelle St. John. We also discussed some of the finalists for the 2023 Audie Awards.

Review & discussion with Shachi, Lisa, and Scott.

Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and HarperAudio for providing a review copy of VenCo for this episode

VenCo [Libro.fm]

2023 Audie Finalists

Legends and Lattes [Audible] / [Episode 150]

The Monsters We Defy [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The 1619 Project [Libro.fm]

Finding Me [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Noor [Libro.fm] / [Episode 127]

Miracle and Wonder [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 137]

How High We Go In The Dark [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Coraline (Full Cast Production) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Good Omens (Full Cast Production) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

January LaVoy for Thistlefoot [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Joniece Abbott-Pratt for Nightcrawling [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Raybearer [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 91]

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Women Could Fly [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Where I Can't Follow [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

We Ride Upon Sticks [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

How to Stop Time [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Girl One [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The City We Became [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, written by Roshani Chokshi and narrated by Steve West & Sura Siu.

Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and HarperAudio for providing a review copy of The Last Tale of the Flower Bride for this episode

Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott.

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride [Libro.fm]

Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Among Others [Audible]

The Chronicles of Narnia [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Spinning Silver [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Libro.fm] / [Episode 30]

We took a look at some of our favorite audiobooks with non-human main characters.

Panel including Shachi, Lisa, and Scott.

Round 1:

Shachi: Klara and the Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 110]

Lisa: The Raven Tower [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott: Wayfarers (Series): The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 97]

Round 2:

Shachi: Glory [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott:The Golem and the Jinni [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 14]

Round 3:

Shachi: What We Fed to the Manticore [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa: CatNet (series): Catfishing on CatNet [Audible]

Scott: The One and Only Ivan [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Additional Picks:

Shachi:The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, The President and the Frog

Lisa: A Snake Falls to Earth, Monk and Robot (series), The Murderbot Diaries (series)

Scott: Charlotte's Web, The Hobbit, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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