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audiobook ramblings
Feb. 11th, 2026 06:06 amYears ago, someone gifted a hardcover copy of Charlie Mackesy's book 'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse' to my parents, which is really only relevant because it meant I recognized it when I saw it available in Libby as an audiobook.
Crucially, as an audiobook that matched FOUR squares in library bingo! (animal on the cover, new (to me) author, has won an award, and is under 200 pages) I couldn't quite imagine how a book so dependent on pictures was turned into an audiobook, but it was only an hour long, so I figured even if I didn't like it, it would be worth checking out.
IT WAS AMAZING!
It's narrated by the author, and has all these nice sound effects and music. The author talks a bit in the beginning about how he wanted to create an experience for people who weren't seeing the pictures, and he tells the story in such a way that I couldn't tell when he was describing the pictures and when he was reading the text.
I laughed, I cried, I enjoyed it very much. Highly recommend as an experience!
(PS: Make that FIVE bingo squares, now that I've recommended it to someone else!)
Crucially, as an audiobook that matched FOUR squares in library bingo! (animal on the cover, new (to me) author, has won an award, and is under 200 pages) I couldn't quite imagine how a book so dependent on pictures was turned into an audiobook, but it was only an hour long, so I figured even if I didn't like it, it would be worth checking out.
IT WAS AMAZING!
It's narrated by the author, and has all these nice sound effects and music. The author talks a bit in the beginning about how he wanted to create an experience for people who weren't seeing the pictures, and he tells the story in such a way that I couldn't tell when he was describing the pictures and when he was reading the text.
I laughed, I cried, I enjoyed it very much. Highly recommend as an experience!
(PS: Make that FIVE bingo squares, now that I've recommended it to someone else!)
