Musing Monday is hosted over at Should Be Reading.
Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
My Muse this week is when you are listening to an audio book do you like the person reading it to straight read or do voices? The one I am listening to now, which admittedly is my first has the reader doing different voices for the different characters and honestly it makes me smile and giggle and enjoy it that much more.
I started listening to audiobooks about a month or two ago. One book had a couple of main characters with foreign accents, and the narrator did a really good job of integrating that into her reading, and it added a lot to the experience. On the other hand, the book I finished listening to last week had a narrator that I just didn’t like–and part of the reason was when she had to read male dialogue, she went into this sort of deep monotone voice, and it was really distracting! Luckily, the plot of the book was good enough that I was able to ignore it and still enjoy the book.