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.
Category: Book recommendations
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (review with spoilers)
Shankari Chandran explores Australia’s racial tensions in a really clever and interesting way. By juxtaposing them with the ethic tensions in Sri Lanka, also carefully crafted by its colonial overlords, the British (the familiar strategy of divide and rule was implemented to exacerbate differences between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority), she highlights the deeply human need to belong. The white Australians who are so afraid of their land being overtaken by non-white immigrants, refuse to acknowledge that the land was never theirs to claim.
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett | Book Review
I picked up Checkout 19 purely because of its cover, it reminded me of Cleopatra and Frankenstein, by Coco Mellors, a book I absolutely loved, so I felt instantly drawn to it and I’m glad I did. The story is essentially a relationship between a young woman and (European) literature. It’s a coming of age…
This Hybrid Reads 