June is audiobook month and Pride month, to celebrate here are five of our favorite YA audiobooks featuring gay, lesbian or bisexual protagonists. If you have audiobook recs with trans or asexual protagonist please leave below!…
Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cummings
HarperAudio | Memoir | 10/07/2014
Alan Cumming examines the violent and abusive childhood that nearly sent his adult life off course while on a journey to uncover a family secret on the reality TV show Who Do You Think You Are? Just when Cumming thinks he has a handle on all his family secrets, his estranged father calls and drops a big one.
This silver fox actor is known for playing eccentric characters. I know Cumming best from his role as Eli Gold on The Good Wife (He was also in X2). At the time I had no idea he was Scottish but by the time I finished this audiobook the thought of him with an American accent seemed strange.
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Non-Fiction Mini Reviews : Lawyered !
I’ll be honest, I’ve been kind of freaking out about getting closer and closer to the big 3-0, but one of the things I learned as I’ve gotten older is that I can read non-fiction. I always thought I was one of those readers who would never be able to get into serious non-fiction, but it’s a muscle I’m slowly learning to build thanks to audiobooks.
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The Parking Lot Attendant by : Nafkote Tamirat
Unrated | 225 pages | Henry Holt and Co| Literary Fiction | 3/13/18
The Parking Lot Attendant is this sort of unsettling literary novel about a teenage girl and her father living in Boston’s Ethiopian community. They are both introverted and reserved people who keep to themselves; their insulated lives are not perfect but it works. Until the unnamed teenage protagonist bonds with Ayale, a charismatic parking lot attendant who rules this part of Boston, the teen soon finds herself caught up in something bigger than herself. Throughout the book, she serves as an unreliable narrator as she lays out how she and her father ended up on the run and living in an isolated island community.
The book is well written and dives into a very specific world. There was this constant unnerving tone to the book where you kept waiting for something big to happen. Did I necessarily understand everything that was happening towards the end of this book ? Not really, but I enjoyed learning about the Ethiopian culture and about the community in Boston. There are a ton of inserting characters and I liked the how it presents the narrators’ father as this introverted and closed-off man who is being a father the best way he can. At first, it is so easy to find fault with him but as the book goes on you start to understand what kind of father he is.
Check out the audio review atAudioFile Magazine!
Non-Fiction Review: Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Rating: ★★★ +.5 | Non-fiction | 6 hours 29 minutes | Gallery Books | 12/05/17
Tiffany Haddish was the breakout star of 2017 following the success of the film Girl’s Trip. The Lasst Black Unicorn delves into how she went from a broke stand-up comedienne living in her car to having a first look deal with HBO.
This memoir is an absolute must listen on audiobook. Haddish writes like she talks and it flows so much better when listening to it. Also, all of the dialogue is written in script format and sounds much better when Haddish is “acting it out.” She’ll say things that aren’t in the book like “and then I was like” or “he was like” before launching into the words that are on the page. Also, there are some updates and asides that aren’t in the printed book so trust me, you want this on audio.
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AudioFile Magazine’s Picks of the Best New Audiobooks for Summer Listening
It goes without saying that we are big audiobook fans around here, so Kat and I are excited to inviteAudioFile Magazine blogger Aurelia C. Scott to stop by and keep to all of our audio TBR piles stacked!
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