Audiobook Café’s Best of 2025
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What are the highlights of Audiobook Café's best interviews from 2025?
As I record this, I'm one day away from heading off to two and a half weeks of vacation. And I've warned my partner, I'm going to listen to so many damn audiobooks. the holiday season is the best for audiobook listening because you've got time on your hands and i don't know about you guys but i want to go i don't want to go outside anyways so i'll be busy for the next couple weeks which means that the show is also going on a holiday break but we'll be back on january 10th 2026 but before we let you go We want to leave you with an episode where we look back at our favorite bits of conversation. It's a best of episode. And by the way, when I say we, I'm not talking about the multitudes of me. I'm including senior producer Andrika.
She's been grinding in the background, keeping the show going. And for today, for example, she wrangled up clips from the past couple months episodes. And not unlike presents under a Christmas tree, they're all clips that are well worth unwrapping.
How does winter influence audiobook listening habits?
This is Audiobook Cafe. I'm Jacob Szymanski. Red Sale is the host of My Life in Books on AMI-audio. He's joining me for this look back at the year. Red, is wintertime an audiobook season like it is for me, just as much as it is for you?
Absolutely. I think, yeah, even more so than summertime, I just like to curl up with a good audiobook. And do nothing. Eat and be slothful. And it's great. I'm always going somewhere in the summer. The audiobook's always on my phone, plugged into my ears. But, you know, it's interrupted by having to change from a train onto a bus and lug my climbing gear somewhere. No, wintertime, it is just pure, utter indulgence. If I tell you that... Actually, since recording my last episode last week, I've read two of the books on my want-to list this winter. You'll see how slothful I've been. My bass guitar playing has really suffered as well.
in in looking back at my good reads you know looking back at my year in reading uh i see the date that i add that i read these books and like i read a lot of books in december and january like i probably like 30 40 of the books i read all year were in this time period um but it's been a good year for reading for me i think a big part of this is because of the show introducing me to All sorts of really interesting authors and books that I normally wouldn't read. Like I've, I don't know about you, right, but I've been reading a lot of romance recently and I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of enjoying it. I get it. I get it. It's fun.
It's nice to read something that makes you happy, isn't it? And I think we'll talk about this a little bit later in the show, I guess, but... You know, all these naysayers who just turn around and say, oh, well, it can't be proper literature because, you know, it's fun and enjoyable. Well, no, sorry. Actually, some of what we now consider to be literature did start off as being written off as light and fluffy and not literary enough. So, yeah, no. Do what makes you happy.
I don't know why light and fluffy has negative connotations. Everybody likes it when things are light and fluffy. That's how I like my lattes. At least the foamy bits. Okay, let's get to this first clip. We have a couple to get to. As we're going to go through these clips, we're going to come back and we're going to comment on them. And... I think you'll find that these clips are pretty self-contained, but they're pretty rich. And we're going to throw back to make sure that you know where you can find all of these full episodes because we've had some really good guests on the show this year. All right, so let's get started with this first clip from Molly Burke. We interviewed her a few months ago in the lead up to her releasing her new memoir, Unseen, which I quite liked.
And this is a really, really good interview. Here's the clip.
I think it's so important to show growth and that we as humans change over time. The more information we get, the more life experience that we have, our perspectives shift, and that's important. I've been posting my life on the internet for 11 years.
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