 and she knows she's a production. Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you are well. Is that a bit low? Yeah that is a bit low, I'm cutting my head off. Today I'm doing a very exciting video and I'm giving you some audiobook recommendations! So excited! The first thing I want to say quickly before we get into the video because I don't think I've ever actually said it on this channel. I now post on Thursdays and Sundays so I now post twice a week and yeah it's usually vlogs on Sundays, it's usually normal vlogs on video, normal videos I've ever had. It's normal videos on Thursdays. Sometimes if I haven't had time to finish what I'm reading the Sunday won't be a vlog. I always do themed vlogs as well if you're new. Make sure you ring the bell so you're notified when I post. If you ring the bell I think it's that side I should have learnt mine now but I'm pretty sure it's that side that really really helps me out and make sure you subscribe, make sure you subscribe if you haven't already. So listening to audiobooks definitely changed my reading game. It's stepped, I can't say that, but it like I step my f***ing up basically you know. It just speeds up your reading and allows you to get to many more books than you would otherwise. I definitely use audiobooks to get to the books that I don't know, I'm gonna physically read. The stuff I read physically is more planned and audiobooks are more just stuff I pick up on a whim and they can always definitely be very surprising, like you're definitely pleasantly surprised. Whereas a book should physically, sometimes the more hyped books that you feel a lot of pressure to read and they can be disappointing, but like audiobooks you're like wow, this is surprising. So I use Scribd, I'll put a link down below where you can actually get two months free of Scribd and it's a great service. I definitely recommend, I don't really get anything out of it, but so it's not like I'm like plugging it, but like you should definitely go and get two months free of Scribd because it's not limited in the way audible is in the sense that you only get like one credit or whatever. Scribd does so at the month, the more you listen, some books you won't be able to listen to until your subscription renews the next month, but for the most part it's unlimited. So I would definitely recommend going checking it out. All of these I listened to on Scribd. I've come along really banged up all of a sudden. I have no idea why. Okay. Now the first audiobook I have to recommend, I just have to and you've probably heard like a billion people recommend it so you're like but I'm here to tell you, I don't care. You just need to read it. I'm here to tell you right now. We don't care. Let me tell you. So the first audiobook is Sadie by Courtney Summers now. Now. This audiobook is a production and she knows she's a production. We follow a girl named Sadie whose sister went missing and part of the story is Sadie trying to follow the trail of her sister and trying to find her sister's murderer. And then the other part of the book, actually a podcast looking for both us. No, looking for Sadie because Sadie is now missing and it's the podcast is a little bit ahead of time from when we're talking to Sadie. The other part of this, which is the podcast is a guy talking to Sadie's family, talking to people who knew Sadie and trying to figure out where she's gone. The podcast part is amazing. It's so amazing. Like it's so engrossing. I love, I love what it's a production. Like so in the podcast bits when he's talking for example to one of the women that she grew up with and they're in her trailer, you can hear like the clock ticking in the background or the way it sounds is how it would sound if it was recorded in a trailer. Do you know what I mean? Not in a recording booth but the audio is like impeccable. You're just placed in that situation and it's so good. It's so good. So I gave Sadie five stars. I think a big reason as to why David's book five stars was how immersive the audio book was. I would definitely recommend looking out for audiobooks that have a full cast because let me tell you, let me tell you it's so good. It's so good. Like you're just listening and you're like wow I'm so in this story. It feels like a true crime podcast. So if you're into anything like that you've got to pick Sadie up. And like if you've heard people recommend this before and you haven't picked it up, let me be the final straw. You know the Sadie section where she's narrating the story is so engrossing as well. You kind of feel like she's standing right next to you talking in your ear. The narrator does such a good job of making you feel like you're with Sadie and she's talking directly to you. There are heavy trigger warnings in this for abuse, child abuse and it deals with a lot of heavy subjects but the way that audiobook is structured I think it just does a such a good job of like dealing with those subjects while still making it an entertaining experience. Sadie also has a stutter and so I've heard, I mean I can't speak on the rep but I've heard some people say that it's good rep. So if you are looking for a character with a stutter Sadie does have one. And yeah I just, I love that mother f***ing I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I just love this audiobook. Like it's one of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to and there's a reason why everyone helps it up because it's so good. Like it's just, it's just unparalleled. There is no one out here doing it the way Sadie by Courtney Summers audiobook does. So the next recommendation is, this may be sound like a bit of a weird one but we're gonna go with it. It's Murder on the Oran Express by Agatha Christie. Now rarely do I listen to an audiobook that engrosses me so much and like pulls me in and I'm so obsessed with that by the end of the book I have to find an e-book version of it so I can read it quicker because I find that when I have the pdf version in front of me I can like speed the audiobook up because I've got the words in front of me. Rarely do I have to do that. I had to do it this book. It was, it was such a good audio book. The audiobook I listened to was narrated by Kenneth Branagh who if you don't know is an English actor. He's the one that looks like Ian McGregor but isn't Ian McGregor. I remember, I remember for class once we had to watch a Shakespeare film. I think it was Midsummer's Night's Dream. I might be wrong and Kenneth Branagh was in it and the whole time we all thought it was Ian McGregor because they just look the exact same. I think he stars in the film adaptation of this and he does such a good job on narrating it. His accents for like the English person, the French person, the American person are incredible. Like you didn't need a full cast of this because Kenneth Branagh could just do it all. Like he was like, but this book I was obsessed with it. Like I was finding any excuse I could to listen to an audio book because usually I listen to them when I'm walking somewhere or doing chores and I was like let me just do this chore that I didn't need doing so I can listen to this book. And it has made me obsessed with mystery books. So if you don't know Mode on the Orient Express they're on the Orient Express um Paro Paro Paro Paro Paro Paro I'm gonna eat myself. Anyway he's on the train he's the detective in many like Arthur Christie's books and there's a murder. There's a murder. He basically interviews all of the guests on the train um because they're snowed in there's a very select number of people that the murderer could have been. If someone fled the train they would have seen their their feet in the snow. Their their footprints in the snow. So he interviews all the people on the train and comes to a conclusion on who committed the murder. So it is so good and now I just want to read mystery books all the time. In fact I mean vlogging it soon but I'm just obsessed. Like I'm just obsessed. I get that Christie's writing I think is timeless. But yeah I just think this story is a bit of a mastercraft in reveals and twists. A big chunk of the book is like the evidence of this person the evidence of this person like each chapter is just an interview with another guest and you may think Megan that could get boring so fast. There's like 10 guests where like you spend a good amount of time going through their story but by the end it just builds up to a point where you're like I think that person did it. I think that person did it. Like you really don't know and every chapter you are you think is a different person. I think it's just so well done and now I want to read all of Agatha Christie's books and audiobooks. Like I've decided I'm doing it. Script has like mostly all of them so I think for the foreseeable future I'm going to be listening to Agatha Christie audiobooks. So that is definitely my next recommendation. My next recommendation is actually a collection of books and that is all of Alice Oseman's books. So she is the author of Solitaire, Radio Silence. I was born for this. I think that's the order they came out in. And you've probably heard of Radio Silence. It's the most well known of her books but I've listened to all of her novels. They're her three main novels and then she's got graphic novels, Heart Stopper which you all know I love so much. They're fairly easy books to read and so I think you get pulled into them really quickly. If you're reading something a bit heavier they're a really nice light. Not light in terms of subject matter because she usually deals with quite heavy subjects but the way they're written is very light and so I really enjoy listening to them in audiobooks. The narrators are always top tier. The narrators are so good. Radio Silence was another one where I had to, I mean Script this time had the ebook as well and by the end I was just sitting in bed like I have to finish this book and so I was reading it alongside listening to it. I would recommend I was born for this and Radio Silence over Solitaire. I didn't love Solitaire as much. It is her first book. So when I was born for this we followed two perspectives, Jimmy and I can't remember her name. I can't remember the other girl's name. We follow their perspectives and I was born for this is basically she's a massive fan of the band Jimmy is in and their paths meet and converge and I think the POVs really helped to keep the story going in terms of the narrator story in the audiobook. I've heard some people say that they think they would have struggled to read it physically and I think it definitely does keep the story moving along and the writers are really really great on this audiobook. Again I just think it helps to have when you have these two main perspectives to have someone narrating each of them. I think it just improves an audiobook from the get go. I'm sorry about the light. What can I do? We're fine. We've got the ring light so it's not that bad. Radio Silence is a girl who has always kind of been taught that she should follow a really academic path but what she wants to do and what she loves to do is draw and so she's trying to figure out which one of them she wants to do and she's a massive fan of a podcast called University. She ends up drawing for the creator of that podcast. He wants her to create animations and stuff for the podcast. In the end they meet and become friends and it's kind of their story of friendship and it's just a beautiful story. Alice Oseman does friendships so well. She has all kinds of relationships so well. I adore her and if I could hype up how to stop her in this video I would but it's a graphic novel so I'm not going to tell you to go into an audiobook but there's just some stories that you want to be read to you. I think you can put your finger on it but I think there's just some books that are great to be read to you and I think that her books are one of them so I definitely recommend going listening to hers. My next recommendation is The Way We're Children series by Sean and Maguire. Sometimes I struggle with fantasy books as audiobooks because I'm always doing other things while listening to audiobooks and so sometimes I struggle if it's a more complex fantasy to listen to it but with this series the worlds are so incredibly vivid that I don't struggle with that so The Way We're Children series are very short novellas so the audiobooks are only like four hours they're so so short so you really should just go pick it up. Do it! Just do it! Don't let your dreams be dreams. It's children who have gone through doors to other worlds that suit them better it's like their world there will never be a world that is is better for them if that makes sense like it's their world and um they have all had to come back in many of these. Some of the stories are of them in their worlds some of the books focus on that and some follow them back in our world trying to come to terms with it trying to learn how to cope after you know having to leave their world having to be forced out. The worlds are just the way The Children of Maguire does it like you can just imagine it so perfectly and sometimes I struggle with that in audiobooks but this one I really don't. Also in the UK the books are quite expensive what they are they're like super expensive for these really short books so for me you wouldn't believe it by amount of books I buy but I am scared to spend my money sometimes and so as soon as I saw these around audiobooks I was like okay I'm doing that because that means I don't have to spend money and like I said they're super short so you're really not gonna miss out on anything even if you don't like them please just give a first when I go which is every heart of doorway and you will love it. The audiobooks are just incredible I think they sometimes have like music in them and I love I love when audiobooks starts off with music because like I'm just vibing like I love it I love it. It's done. It's done. It's done. You know what it said he says you're drunk and a shlot no you're so. It's like a fairy tale being read to you it's like you're a kid again sitting in your bed and your parents are reading a fairy tale to you and then my favourite no no no my last tip is to actually see if any of your favourite childhood books are on script reading middle grade or kids books I think is a really really great like palette cleanser again it just it just helps your readjust your reading and they're super quick to read as well. Recently I've been loving listening to the Mallory Tower series on the script which was one of my favorite series growing up and I also loved, I didn't read them as a kid but they are kind of kids books, I love listening to the Nancy Drew books because they were just such of their time, like the music you use in it. It just took you back to like the 1950s or whatever and like lets you live in that world for a little bit. I love an audiobook just taking to another world and let you live in that world a little bit and there's all these multimedia elements that absorb you in it. I think it's a shame when audiobooks don't take advantage of sound effects of music because like you've got it all at your fingertips so I love it when books do that. So I think you going and reminiscing, I guess this is this is more personal to you, I'm not recommending you a specific book but just go and check out any of your favorite children's books on a script or an audible whatever audiobook service you use or Libby or there's there's so many if your library has any. Script isn't the only one that exists but it's just what I use that's why I keep saying it but yeah definitely go check it out and see if you can find any because they'll help you get ahead on your reading goal and they're just something refreshing to read I really really enjoy it. So there we have it that was all of my audiobook recommendations I hope you enjoyed this video let me know down below some of your audiobook recommendations I would love to know. I always want more audiobook recommendations in fact my like saved on script is kind of filling out a bit so I need more rex so yeah let me know thank you so much for watching this video as always I cannot wait to see you again with another one yeah thank you so much for watching I'll see you very very soon bye