Jacob Shymanski

But before I do that, to be absolutely clear, when Red and I are talking about the books that we've read, this isn't to talk about ourselves.

It's just something we really want to do with this show is to

help you guys discover new books and authors in series and so as often as we can we want to mention titles and authors but also give a proper description of what the book is something i see all the time in you know in book publications and forums and social media is people simply saying x book by y author is so good and not continuing that thought with a proper description

reader-centric description, not a synopsis, a description from someone who actually read it.

It's something that I personally find very much lacking in the conversation around literacy and books and audiobooks.

And so we try to bring that to you, like proper, fully formed recommendations.

The book that I spent a good time reading is actually two books, but it's

i'm not okay everybody's gonna know about the series it's uh the first two books of the new full cast edition of harry potter red i don't know if you've had the chance to listen to these things but um full cast sound effects original music beautiful production fantastic narration completely unabridged

Say what you will about JK Rowling, that's a conversation in and of itself.

These books are an absolute marvel of audio engineering and performance and they are fantastic in every single way in terms of production value.

The writing for Harry Potter, I mean I don't know what else there is to say about the way JK Rowling writes.

um because these books have been around and around for decades and have been discussed to death but the production here is incredible the first thing that comes to mind is these must have cost a fortune because there's a lot of very well-known actors in here fantastic performances every single character is voiced by a unique actor and not just that they're really really well performed you

In book two, The Chamber of Secrets, I want to highlight Gilderoy Lockhart, who has an amazing performance.

The actor is appropriately...

quite the buffoon.

It just absolutely steals every scene that he's in.

And I say scene because it feels like a movie.

It really feels like a movie.

My partner and I sat together and listened to the entirety of these two books as if we were just together watching a movie.

It was awesome.