AMI Audiobook Review

We welcome back Jeffrey Rainey, Producer of the Living Blind podcast, Hosted by Balance for Blind Adults. We examine memoires by competitive athletes who've penned the truth behind their experiences after leaving the game. Plus, Let's press Pause or Play on The house in the pines By Ana Reyes, a thriller being featured on the homepage of the Centre for Equitable Library Access.

Sara Hillis features the voice work of Lorelei King, Co-author of Storyteller: How to be an Audiobook Narrator.

We check in with Karen McKay and Theresa Power of the Centre for Equitable Library Access. Off the heals of Freedom to Read week 2023, we consider the reasons and perspectives around why books are banned and challenged around the world.

Let's highlight titles of Romance, Fantasy and Mystery with Aamer Khan. Plus, what weighs more to you, the reader, production or narration? We discuss.

Let's celebrate Black writers, recognize Black stories, and explore Black identities. Sehdeen Lowe shares her love and joy of picking up books by Black authors, hearing Black stories, and through these pages finding the threads of similar realities she faces as a Black woman.

Robin Miles is a narrator with a passion for reading, voicing, and training others to voice. We get to know her work on Know Your Narrator, with Sara Hillis. Plus, we hit Pause or Play on the fantasy title, Into the Broken Lands, By Tanya Huff.

How do last year's reading goals affect our goals of 2023? Let's get into setting book goals with Karen McKay and Theresa Power from the Centre for Equitable Library Access.

Inspiration is everything. Aamer Khan highlights three authors, their popular works, and the related background experiences that seep into the authors' writing of these works.

We welcome Em Williams, Supervisor for Media Accessibility at AMI. She recommends Demystifying Disability, by Emily Ladau, a welcoming read for anyone new to disability conversation.

Sara Hillis features one of the Golden Voices of Audiophile Magazine, January LeVoy - an actress turned versatile audiobook storyteller, on Know Your Narrator.

Do we enjoy getting a peak into influencers' lives? To kick off our first conversation of 2023, we dive into celebrity memoirs, with Karen McKay and Theresa Power from the Centre for Equitable Library Access. We highlight Spare by Prince Harry, Surrender: 40 songs, one story by Bono, Michelle Obama's Becoming, and other life accounts, written and read by the author.

Friends, we've dedicated this entire episode to featuring your top audiobook picks of 2022. We chat with lovely individuals on this show every week, members of the blind and low vision community, allies and friends, avid audiobook listeners and book lovers of all kinds, all over Canada. All year, we've opened up the space to review, discuss, recommend, browse, conceptualize and reminisce on Audiobooks. Now, let's shout out the books that have stuck with you through the year, making it on...

Today's theme is Immersive Reading: how books can take you places.

Danielle McLaughlin is the President of Pal Reading Services. She speaks to the important work done by the organization. Plus, Danielle highlights Olive Kitterdge, by Elizabeth Strout, one of many reads she's currently enjoying.

On Know Your Narrator, Sara Hillis features Simon Vance, a narrator who's lent his voice to every kind of title you can imagine.

Notable literary awards were handed out in November. We review the winners and prizes with Karen McKay and Theresa Power from the Centre for Equitable Library Access. Plus, we feature new Christmas books available on the CELA Library for your listening.

Aamer Khan reflects on his month of audiobook listening as "Mystery, romance and some real confusion." We dive into these categories with him. Plus, we hit Pause or Play on the police procedural fiction, titled Blackwater Falls, by Ausma Zehanat Khan.

Our guest this week is Joeita Gupta, Host of The Pulse on AMI-audio. We dissect the translation of Graphic Novels into audio formats, and compare our perspectives to those of Rhianna McGregor Hajzer, an Accessibility Tester with CELA's Graphic Novels Project.

In October, 2022, we lost one of the great narrators of our time, Dick Hill. Sara Hillis tributes this month's Know Your Narrator to his 30-year vocal career.

Karen McKay and Theresa Power highlight the Governor General’s Awards shortlists announced recently. Plus, we feature books in recognition of Transgender Awareness Month.