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Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025
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The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the Audiobook Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!
1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post
2. During the month, read the audiobooks that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year
Then start a new post for the next month!
FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)
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Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category:
or
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
Not sure I have any left after Wheel 😆Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
In Category:
- 25 hrs - 4 stars
- 60.5 hours!!! - 3 starsNot in Category:
- 22 hours! - 3 stars
- not bad, may have loved as a small child - 3 stars
- short but not so sweet! - 4 stars
- short and fun! - 4 stars
- even shorter! - 4 stars
- even more shorterer! - 4 stars
- also much short - 4 stars
- so much fun! - 5 stars
- disappointing - 3 stars
- so-so - 3 stars
- another good one from Moriarty - 4 stars
- had enough of this series now - 2 stars
- enjoying this series - 4 stars
- the shortest of all! - 3 stars
- so-so - 2.5 stars
- predictable - 3 stars
- not my fave AC - 3.5 stars
- only 19 hours! But very good ones - 4 stars
- another super shortie - 3 stars
- had some entertaining moments - 3 stars
- nice to not have a breakup over a stupid miscommunication for once - 3 stars
- not for me - 2 stars
- not bad - 3 stars
- Predictable but enjoyable - 4 stars
- sweet - 3.5 stars
- stick to the movie!! - 2 stars
- super sweet - 4 stars
- great idea - 4 stars
- another super shortie - 3 stars
- Enjoying this series - 4 starsEnd of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 31
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
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right? haha
I'm sure you can find a few ;)
It would have to be re-reads, as I'm not allowed to buy books! 😆
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In. :))I guess
is fitting in more ways than 1. ☺️Over 29 hours.
Start of Month
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2
Books in category:
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 8
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2
, 4 stars for story, but 5 stars for the excellent narration
, 4 stars for story, but 5 stars for the excellent narration Audiobooks NOT in category: 6
by Eric Metaxas, 4,5 stars, the author is a good narrator as well
by John Carlin, 5 stars, LOVED IT!!!! very good narration by Saul Reichlin
by John Scalzi, 3,5 stars, short and fun
by Camilla Townsend, 3,5 stars, very irritating narration
by Coinneach MacLeod, 4 stars, lovely Scottish accent and voice
, 3 stars, middling narrationMY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
by Eric Metaxas, 4,5 stars, the author is a good narrator as well
by John Carlin, 5 stars, LOVED IT!!!! very good narration by Saul Reichlin
by Coinneach MacLeod, 4 stars, lovely Scottish accent and voice
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Teehee! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Maybe you’ll get some for Xmas? 🎄 ☺️"Books, almost certainly. Audio books? Highly unlikely! 😢
I hope so, Sammy, I hope so, seeing that it was your fault I bought it in the first place. ;)
Found an interesting article on audiobooksListen up! Why 2024 was the year of the audiobook https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025Theme: Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
2025 Audiobook ChallengeStart of January
Total audiobooks to read: 5
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - 27 hr 19 min - finished 7 Jan
Other books
1. All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3) by Patricia Cornwell - 12 hr 32 min - finished 14 Jan
2. Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5) by C.J. Sansom - 22 hr 42 min - finished 26 Jan
3. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs - 6 hr 15 min - finished 26 Jan
4. Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe - 7 hrs 15 min - finished 27 Jan
End of January recap
Total audiobooks read this year: 5
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why)
January
I love Owen Meany. It was warm, touching, and funny and had characters and a story I really cared about.
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Listen up! Why 2024 was the year of the audiobook https://www.theguardian.com/books/202..."
Interesting.
My sister would never read audiobooks which I didn’t understand as she is a huge podcast listener. She finally read one when they became available on Spotify and now she reads them all the time. So I can definitely see that Spotify would have a big impact on the market for people that didn’t think about audiobooks before or didn’t want to pay for another (audible) subscription
Avid's Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025Theme:◈It's like three books in one
Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 15
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 12
Audiobooks in monthly category read (year): 0
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025Theme: Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
Start of Month
Total audiobooks read: 0
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read in Jan: 27
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 3
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
My absolute favorite book/Audio this month was
I absolutely loved this book. this is more lit fic than anything. Do not go in with any idea that this book is like another, because it's not. It was raw and exposed feelings of loss, betrayal, and love.
Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025Theme: Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 8
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category: A Court of Wings and Ruin
FINISHED
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
An Ember in the Ashes
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Darling Girls
Kindred
The Kingdom of Sweets
Save the Last Dance for Me
Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
What the River Knows
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny
xo, Zach
Zaddy
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 13
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 0 (started but not finished in time)
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why): An Ember in the Ashes Great narration and really intriguing story
MONTHLY AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGE: January 2025Theme : audiobooks that are 25 hours or longer
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 5
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category:
Daughter of the Forest 26 hrs 42 mins
Rated 3.5 stars
Compared to others fantasy retellings from that era, this one was one of the better written historical fantasy retelling. This is dark with the inclusion of graphic sexual assault scene.
(And I know Melinda loathes this one).
FINISHED
- 4 stars, great to be back in Janloon
- hoping to finish this todayEnd of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 2
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
: Though this one took a while to understand where the story was heading, I initially thought that it would focus on Ruth Kruger, this is more about Grace Humiston and her fight for justice for the poorer residents in New York. But the level of corruption she encountered is dizzying. Gripping read about the greed and corruption in New York and the woman who was both lawyer and detective.
Edited to add my updates!!!Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 1
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: Alexander Hamilton
Books in category:
FINISHED
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1
I just won't do Les Mis....that book derailed me from reading two years ago.
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I just won't do Les Mis....that book derailed me from reading two years ago."
I only got through that by reading it over a year as the weighty tome buddy read. The title should be a clue really about how that book is going to play out. haha
Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025Theme: Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 10
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category:
★
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 40
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1
Start of the month JanuaryTotal audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
Finished
End of month
Total Audiobooks read for the year:
Audiobooks books in monthly category:
My monthly recommendation (and why):
Monthly Audiobook ChallengeDuration: January 2025
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 37
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 1
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
Love the Ryan Gosling picture this month Karen! An AI one I take it? (your AI pictures tend to be so much less disturbing than most I've seen! 😆)
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why thank you *bows*
I was wondering when someone would notice 😂
Yes the robot did a good job with him. Some of the others coming up this year not so much.... but they are at least realistic and not so disturbing (looking at your pictures Teddie lol)
My current audio is 24hrs and 59 minutes! Can I round up that minute? 😆
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Absolutely not
Haha
Kidding
I think we can let you get away with that one . Just sit for sixty seconds at the end and reflect on the book 🤣😊
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Sammy wrote: "My current audio is 24hrs and 59 minutes! Can I round up that minute? 😆"Absolutely not
Haha
Kidding
I think we can let you get away with that one . Just sit for sixty seconds at ..."
🤭
Teehee! Another challenge is making me write 200-word reviews for the books I use for it, so I probably will anyway 😂
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Teehee
Just got 2024 stats from Audible. 😊In 2024 I listened to 713 hours and 5 minutes and listened to 119 titles.
My Top Month was June with 95 hours and 33 minutes and that has also been my highest listening time in a month ever since I have been using Audible.
My most listened to author was Dorothy Dunnett (95 hours) and narrator (for Dorothy Dunnett) was John Banks (79 hours).
and according to Audible's genre-ing:
Sammy wrote: "Nice!No sign of mine yet 😟"
Actually I discovered them on my app, under my profile, not in a message like last year.
Nope, not there either 😟Obviously the Uk guys aren't very on-the-ball...
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Obviously the Uk guys aren't very on-the-ball..."
I don’t have it either. I thought I was the only one 🤣
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Tamera wrote: "I will read one 25 hour book in January. I just won't do Les Mis....that book derailed me from reading two years ago."
I only got through that by reading it over a year as the wei..."
I can totally believe that!!!
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which was just over 34 hours.
Tough subject matter but I love the development of Cormoran and Robin.
I have about 23 hours left of
(is 55hrs) and I am going back and forth between the audio and the kindle. Unfortunatey I had to buy them both at usual $ unlike most kindle books where you can add on the audio for a few dollars. But I think price per page is probably still better value than most books. haha. Hopefully Sanderson gets a fair amount for his work
Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025Theme: Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length
Start of Month:0
Total audiobooks to read:10
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:1
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month: 11
Total audiobooks read this year:11
Audiobooks in monthly category read:0
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
-Julia Whelan is my favorite narrator and this is her book she writes.
Well, in the end I read 2 books in the monthly category though not the one I intended. 😁Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2
, 4 stars for story, but 5 stars for the excellent narration
, 4 stars for story, but 5 stars for the excellent narration MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
by Eric Metaxas, 4,5 stars, the author is a good narrator as well
by John Carlin, 5 stars, LOVED IT!!!! very good narration by Saul Reichlin
by Coinneach MacLeod, 4 stars, lovely Scottish accent and voice
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Each month we will have a different theme of audiobook for you to listen to.
Read one, two, three, or thirty. Up to you! Just post at the start of the month which books you will read in the category, update through the month and post a link to your Goodreads review (no links to external sites).
Let's find some great audiobooks together!
Duration: Monthly
January 2025 Theme:
◈It's like three books in one
Audiobooks that are 25 hours or more in length