Jacob Shymanski

For them, it's all about summer and especially fall leading to the holidays.

You know, a lot of people are buying gifts for their friends and family for Christmas and stuff like that.

But for us, the readers and listeners, winter is prime listening season.

and january in particular for me is an audiobook listening month because of specifically january 2024 which was the weirdest month of my life let me explain around that time i had just moved to toronto in my apartment and at the time my partner and i were in essence of long distance so i was on my own for a while and it was wintry i didn't want to leave i think i only went into the office twice

For some reason, I didn't leave the apartment whatsoever for practically the entirety of January.

I stayed at home and I listened to audiobooks.

All day.

All night.

I've never listened to so many audiobooks.

And it just so happened that the books that I was reading just happened to be very wintery.

Mainly, I was reading a lot of Robin Hobb.

And her books just tend to happen a lot in the winter.

And there's a lot of drudging through the snow.

That month was an absolute blur.

And I realized that...

It's like my social skills deteriorated.

That's how bad it was.

I didn't talk to anyone.

January 2024 will forever live up in my mind.

As a mother, I didn't hate.