Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

I had the great good fortune to speak as an audiobook evangelist at the Massachusetts Library Association conference, along with audiobook narrator extraordinaire Johnny Heller. Heller is the recipient of accolades galore, including titles on YALSA & ALSC’s suggested audiobook lists, Audies nominations & award, PW’s Listen Up award, and AudioFile’s Best Voice of 2008. [...]

What a gift – a miracle of a book, given a brilliantly nuanced reading by Lincoln Hoppe. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork deserves the slower pace that is often found when listening, rather than devoring the extraordinary text. I just finished the last CD, and am still too stunned to do [...]

Well, the American Library Association conference and the award ceremonies are over. The cheers as the second annual Odyssey Awards were announced are a fond memory, and we’ve had a chance to read the ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings and YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks lists.
So now it’s Super Bowl Weekend, and a perfect time for some Monday [...]

Have you seen the 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Media list? Editor Sue-Ellen Beauregard has a great list of the top titles of the year – including some of my personal favorites: One-Handed Catch, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, Fairest, Elijah of Buxton, Curse of the Blue Tattoo, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian [...]

Here is Part Three of Audiobooker’s Choice: a completely personal list of my suggestions for great audiobook listening for children & young adults (and grown-ups who love a good story). Part One includes titles beginning with A-C, Part Two has D-M, and today we have the end of the alphabet. Now you have a holiday [...]

On to Part Two of Audiobooker’s Choice – a completely personal list of my suggestions for great audiobook listening for children & young adults (and grown-ups who love a good story). This isn’t an official “best of the best” where winners gain gold medals. Just my way of being your personal online audiobook librarian! Hope [...]

2008 was a year of easy listening for me. In the previous five years, I had served on either the Notable Children’s Recording Committee or the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production Committee. Those years were spent listening to every single youth audiobook: all headphones, all the time. But in 2008, I have had [...]