Actor, audiobook director and performer Robin Miles has narrated hundreds of audiobooks. Miles has the ability to convincingly recreate a huge range of speech patterns and accents, conveying more about a character than comes across through their words alone. After an experience narrating the horror book The Good House by Tananarive Due, she realized she could leverage this ability to take on more audiobook work in the sci-fi, horror, and fantasy genres, whose stories typically require more range to portray a large diversity of character-types and voices. Robin Miles is now an industry legend, and a recent inductee of the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame. Here are a few titles read by Miles in the collection:
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
In 1927 and 1931, author Zora Neale Hurston met and interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last person alive who had been enslaved and transported from Africa as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. A Peak Pick! Continue reading “Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Robin Miles”
While there’s nothing like sitting down with a good book and thumbing through the pages, sometimes listening to a book read by a really talented narrator can be an even more captivating experience – and it’s a much safer way to read in the car! We recently asked patrons of the Magnolia library to tell us about some of their favorite narrators and the audio books where they feel these narrators have done their best work. If you’d like to listen to a good book but aren’t sure where to start, here’s a list that will get you on your way.
Do I feel alive in the 21st century with a new blue iPod Nano, a recent gift! I’ve been jealous for awhile of those people walking around with white earbuds. It’s typical technology, coming with only a few brief instructions pages on that glossy paper. I click to the Apple site, Google some “how do I iPod?!” instructions, and dive in.
Library’s digital book collection. I find 