While I fully appreciate that audiobooks may not be for everyone, their numbers are continuing to rise, especially for people under 35, who make up nearly half of frequent audiobook listeners. I think this is a really exciting statistic and celebrates the neurodiversity amongst readers. It makes books and reading accessible to people who have different styles of learning and living. In my home everyone listens to audiobooks and my children, aged 7 and under, all borrow books they like to listen to as well as books they like to read or be read to. We listen to audiobooks, fiction and nonfiction, on car journeys and it is a really lovely bonding experience for us a family, which I highly recommend to everyone.
Month: Sep 2023
Subjugation, Inequality, Hostility: Hail the new French motto.
From its inception however, the phrase has never been wholly adopted by it’s citizens nor its leaders. From Napoleon to Marshal Pétain, it has had to be altered to suit Frances true relationship with equality and liberty. French women, for example, were only give the right to vote in 1945. It was one of the last countries in Europe and the world to do so, given that many of the countries that followed had been colonised and not self-governed. Freedom and equality have never been principles France has been comfortable with.
This Hybrid Reads 