Closing the Audiobook Challenge (Listening Books) for 2021

 

I haven't kept up with the Listening Book Challenge since September. I've had some health problems and I've been of "low spirits" as a result. 

Here we are in December already and I want to wrap up the Listening Book Challenge for 2021.

I'm still not even halfway through the book I started in September, Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer.  I selected it for the "Listen to an Audiobook that is over 24 Hours Long" challenge (even if the book is 23 hours and 13 minutes long).  

I was looking at the Audiobook Listening Challenge list to see if any of the books I also read this year for various book clubs or for myself would fit any of the seven remaining challenges for the year.  

I'll add two from my book club reads:

* Listen to an audiobook featuring an LGBTQ romance:

The Long Call by Ann Cleves, narrated by Ben Aldridge

* Listen to an audiobook featuring a protagonist with a disability:

So Say the Fallen by Stuart Neville,  narrated by Deirdre O'Connell

That leaves four challenges on the list for 2021 unfinished.

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I found not having a monthly book assignment to make it more difficult for me to keep up.  Guess I need more structure to my challenges. 

For the other books I listened to for this 2021 challenge, go to the link below:

https://whiterosewritings.blogspot.com/search/label/Audiobook%20Challenge

Audiobook Challenge 2021 - August Audiobook

 

The Darkness

By

Ragnar Jonasson 

Narrated by Amanda Redman

This is my August Audiobook challenge:  Listening to an Audiobook set During Extreme Weather

For more on the 2021 Audiobook Listening Challenge click on the link below:

https://www.listening-books.org.uk/library/audiobook-listening-challenge-2021

The Darkness is Book 1 of the Hidden Iceland book series by Ragnar Jonasson.  I'm really looking forward to listening to this book as a lover of Nordic Noir.

I also know about the narrator, British actress Amanda Redman.  I'm a fan of the New Tricks TV series, especially the first seasons starring Amanda Redman. 

Publisher description of the book:

Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. 

As a woman of a certain age myself, and recently retired. I look forward to getting to know DI Hermannsdottir. 

Audiobook Challenge 2021 - July Audiobook

 For my July Listening Books Audiobook Challenge

I am selecting the "Free Space -- Choose Your Own Audiobook Challenge." My choice:

 LISTEN TO AN AUDIOBOOK WITH A FEMALE PROTAGONIST THAT IS PART OF A BOOK SERIES

My audiobook for this month is The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths, narrated by Jane McDowell - the latest book in the Ruth Galloway series.

Ruth Galloway is my favorite forensic archeologist.  I also related to Ruth as a person immediately in the first book of the series. I'm not an archeologist, but I share many of Ruth's view of the world.  

If you are not familiar with the Ruth Galloway books, you can read more about them at the link below:

https://ellygriffiths.co.uk/my-books/the-ruth-galloway-novels/

(And of course I agree with author Elly Griffiths that Richard Armitage should be cast as DCI Harry) Nelson)

Audiobook Challenge 2021 - April Audiobook

 

My Audiobook for April is 

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Narrated by Trevor Noah

I'm following the

2021 Listening Book Challenge

And this checks off

Listen to an Audiobook Narrated by the Author

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I have to confess that last year's audiobook challenge was easier to follow since we had a specific type of book for a specific month.  

Must be something in me that makes an open ended annual audiobook challenge more difficult to fulfill.  I have to make more of an effort to listen to one book a month rather than procrastinate.

Why this book?  I don't watch the Daily Show but I like watching Trevor Noah on YouTube.  He's a very interesting and very good interviewer.  And funny too. I've had this audiobook in my Audible library for a while and am looking forward to finding out more about Trevor.