Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

Chime in with your favorite listen in the comments – do you love a great tear-jerker? Laugh at chick-lit girls-vs-guy humor? Languish while fantasizing about the bare-chested hero of a Regency bodice-ripper? I had great fun writing this article <http://bit.ly/AzaU3>about audiobook romances for Booklist Magazine, turning my ears to a genre I had never given [...]

I’ve mentioned the AUDIOBOOKS discussion group before, but want to give the online community another shout-out. Click here for how to sign up and join in the discussion of your favorite titles & narrators! The conversation has been lagging a bit, but I’m doing my part by recommending one of my all-time favorite audiobooks [...]

Watch this video on recording World War Z & The Zombie Survival Handbook as audiobooks. Interestingly, Brooks praises the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic’s audiobooks, featured in this Comic-Con post with Stan Lee, for helping him make it through school as a student with reading difficulties. World War Z is one of my personal [...]

Click here for a link to the audio recording of our ALA session “Evaluating Audiobooks for Children & Teens” – with tips for anyone interested in learning how to talk the talk of audiobooks. Be sure to check out this post for the session notes, PowerPoint, and more. And if you’d like even more research [...]

Today’s panel at ALA Annual was a happy reunion of nearly all the members of the 2008 Odyssey Award committee, while those missing lent their support from afar. The wonderful women who served with me on that first-year committee are an amazing group of children’s and YA literature experts with a deep knowledge of the [...]

Audiobook fans, mark your calendars now: Monday 7/13, 3:30-5:30pm, McCormick Place West in W-470b. This is a free event, no ticket needed. Grab your seats early, as last year this was a standing-room only event -I even spotted a few Newbery-award winners sitting on the floor! The Odyssey Award recognizes excellence in the production of [...]

Click here for a printable list of 50 books, five magazines, and five audiobooks that make up the Ultimate Teen Bookshelf, named by the American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Services Association. Subscribers to the YALSA-BK electronic discussion list suggested titles for the Ultimate Teen Bookshelf, which were vetted by Pam Spencer Holley and Judy [...]

Twenty top new titles for children & adults were named by the UK’s Audio Publishing Association, as well as 20 notable backlist titles.  US favorites, such as Tea Time for the Traditionally Built and The Graveyard Book appear on the list, as well as distinctly UK titles such as The Last Fighting Tommy by Harry [...]

Grab this science-fiction title quick – available for free from Audible.com until June 12th! Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga by Karl Schroeder, narrated by Joyce Irvine, published by Macmillan Audio is the first in a space trilogy . Read the review of the print edition here – and if you’d like recommendations of [...]

Thanks to the Audio Publishers Association for letting members know about the coverage of the Audies Award event on TV station New York 1’s George Whipple show. The event was absolutely wonderful – especially when I got a hug from Neil Gaiman. Really – I swear – I just can’t prove it because the picture [...]