Romance Audiobooks discussion

Well, the year has ended and it’s on to new challenges. Let’s take a moment to reflect on those we participated in during 2018.

1. What challenges did you participate in? Here’s the list for your reference:
1,000,000
Personal Listening
A-Z Title
A-Z Narrator
Quarterly Narrator
Listeners of the Month
Series Catch Up
Big Listening
All About Romance

2. Which Challenges did you successfully complete?

3. If you participated in the monthly Listener of the Month Challenge, how many were you able to complete?

4. Which were you most proud of having completed?

5. Which are your favorites?

6. Any others you’d like to see in 2019?

1. What challenges did you participate in?

1,000,000
Personal Listening
A-Z Title
Listeners of the Month
Series Catch Up
Big Listening


2. Which Challenges did you successfully complete?

Every single one!

3. If you participated in the monthly Listener of the Month Challenge, how many were you able to complete?

Every single one!

4. Which were you most proud of having completed?
The series catch up challenge. Every year, I completely bomb it! So this year when I completed it and with a bit of time to spare, I sort of did the Rocky champion dance by my laptop. Bouncing up and down with my hands high. LOL.

5. Which are your favorites?
Hands down it would be the Listener of the Month. I love learning about each of the members through their shelves. I found some pretty good reads too.

The next would be the 1,000,000 minutes because we rock it!

6. Any others you’d like to see in 2019?

Hmmm. I don't know but I'm down for whatever everyone else wants :)

1. What challenges did you participate in?
1,000,000
Personal Listening
A-Z Title
Listeners of the Month
Big Listening
All About Romance

2. Which Challenges did you successfully complete?

I finished all of my audio challenges!

3. If you participated in the monthly Listener of the Month Challenge, how many were you able to complete?

I completed all of the monthly listener challenges except January. I was "the listener of the month" in January.

4. Which were you most proud of having completed?

The Big Listen challenge was the hardest for me. I had quite a few audios which were just under 15 hours so I couldn't count them. It was more difficult than I thought it would be. The challenge pushed me to check out stories that I would have probably bypassed because of the length.

5. Which are your favorites?

I loved the Listener of the Month challenge. It was fun sorting through shelves and seeing what people loved. It helped me get to books that I'd put off, or completely forgotten. I had some really fantastic listens with this challenge.

6. Any others you’d like to see in 2019?

I can't think of anything else, except I'd love to hear more from users using audio subscriptions. I subscribe to KU, Audible Romance package and Scribd so I'm always looking for recs. I try to get the most out of these memberships, it helps keep my audio book budget in check.

1. What challenges did you participate in? Here’s the list for your reference:
1,000,000: Part 1 , Part 2
Personal Listening: Karin's Log
A-Z Title
A-Z Narrator
Quarterly Narrator: Female Narrator, Male Narrator, Multiple Narrators, Two Narrators
Listeners of the Month: Completed Jan-Jun, Aug-Nov.
Series Catch Up
Big Listening
All About Romance

2. Which Challenges did you successfully complete? Big Listen, All About Romance, A-Z Title, Series Catch Up, ALL Quarterly Challenges (not the same levels, though), Monthly challenges Jan-Jun & Aug-Nov

3. If you participated in the monthly Listener of the Month Challenge, how many were you able to complete? See above. ;-)

4. Which were you most proud of having completed?
A-Z Challenges are always hard for me. I do listen to a lot of different titles/narrators, but I always get stuck on a few letters.

5. Which are your favorites?
I loved the Listener of the Month challenges! They help with my TBR, but they also get me to listen to ones I may have forgotten were even ON my pile.

6. Any others you’d like to see in 2019?
I like the Big Listen challenge, but I wouldn't mind having a Little Listen challenge (under an hour, under 2 hours, etc...) I sometimes skip novellas simply because they are so short. This might help me to get a few of those off my pile.

KathyB wrote: "I'd love to hear more from users using audio subscriptions."

That would be an awesome idea. A subscription challenge. I just signed up for the Romance Package on Christmas because of the $4.95 introductory offer, but I don't ever think to look at those books. I don't buy them, because I think I'll get them when I subscribe. However, I usually just look at the books I have in my library when I'm deciding what to read next.

1. What challenges did you participate in?
A-Z Title
Big Listening

2. Which Challenges did you successfully complete?
A-Z Title
Big Listening

4. Which were you most proud of having completed?
The A-Z Title challenge—I had to fiddle with my TBR some and dig around to make it happen.

6. Any others you’d like to see in 2019?
I would like to hear if people have Audible-Originals-of-the-month recommendations, as Audible members also get AO credits with our membership. (In January 2019 I snagged the Gallagher Girls prequel, but can't decide on a second pick. I'd like to know if I'm missing out on something spectacular if I don't make a second pick!)