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Audiobook Café

Accessible Media Inc.

Jacob Shymanski shares the latest audiobook and literary news, and features in-depth conversations with authors, narrators and industry experts.

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00:31:28

Author Interview: Double Take by Kathryn Cole

Audiobook Café ·

2025/01/10

We dive into Kathryn Cole’s life in authoring, illustrating, editing, and much more of her fascinating career in Canadian Lliterature. Kathryn has a lot to say about the changes in the publishing process, her experience editing other peoples works versus her own writing adventures, and a whole lot on what it was like adopting children as a young, single mother.

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00:31:41

Literature for Swimmers with Danielle McLaughlin

Audiobook Café ·

2025/01/07

Danielle McLaughlin lets us in on her love for swimming, and ties the hobby right back in with her love for literature. With books like Swell: A Waterbiography by Jenny Landreth, there is much to talk about around the world of water. Danielle takes us on a literary plunge, and it’s nothing less than fascinating.

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00:30:48

A Book Look at 2025 with Karoline Bourdeau

Audiobook Café ·

2025/01/03

Karoline Bourdeau introduces us to BetaBooks, a platform where authors open up their writing for crowd-sourced consultation. Plus, we ponder about our own 2025 reading goals, and consider how Spotify is changing the competition for audiobook consumption.

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00:55:47

Your Top Reads of 2024

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/24

Here’s our Year in Reading, one-hour special episode, featuring your top lit picks of 2024. From page-turning thrillers to memorable memoirs, and even the unforgettable guilty pleasures, you have us covered. AMI’s Dave Brown helps us crank out the list of your best book experiences of the year.Karoline Bourdeau• But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging by Hala Gorani• The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page• This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune•

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00:29:49

Review: Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma...

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/23

An emergency landing during a flight to Toronto has a group of strangers, including an entire bridal party, snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town. As romances unfold and movies are filmed, they soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays. We review this fun, cozy Holiday read with Aamer Khan.

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00:30:06

Rapid Fire Review with Karen Magee

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/20

Karen Magee steps right into the rabbit hole if she enjoyed the first book an author wrote. She also can’t remember the last time she didn’t finish a book she started, no matter how painful it was to keep reading. She shares her five most recent reads, under the 15-second pressure clock, on Rapid Fire Review.

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00:29:10

Author Interview: I Don't Do Disability and Other...

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/17

In a society where people with disabilities remain largely invisible, what does it mean to parent a child born With Down syndrome? Adelle Purdham began unpacking a lifetime of her own ableism and society’s role in it, after the birth of her daughter. We explore her collection of essays, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself, describing her honest, resilient journey.

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00:32:13

Review: Patriot By Alexei Navalny

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/13

Alexei Navalny’s Patriot is an unpolished memoir, mostly written from prison, chronicling his fight against corruption in Russia through his deeply personal journey. With humorous passages, pro references to Harry Potter, Navalny’s reflections on family and love give Sara Hillis and the gang much to review around this this intense political narrative.

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00:29:56

Top Books of 2024 with Karen McKay and Theresa Power

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/10

Do book lists even matter? Karen McKay and Theresa Power from the Centre for Equitable Library Access to chat about the year’s hottest book lists. We dive into picks from the Globe and Mail and New York Times, while discussing the place of these lists in today’s book world.

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00:28:11

Read and Tell

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/06

Jacob Shymanski and Ramya Amuthan defend their beloved picks on Read and Tell. Today’s prompts are: "The best recommendation I’ve gotten in a while is…” and "The tearjerker I need to tell you about…”

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00:30:25

Rapid Fire Review with Danielle McLaughlin

Audiobook Café ·

2024/12/02

We’re inviting a brand new contributor on the show – though she is an old friend and known voice on the network, Danielle McLaughlin. Let’s give her a very warm welcome by putting her mental timer and linguistics to the test with a healthy dose of Rapid Fire Review.

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00:32:53

Review: The Maid by Nita Prose

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/29

Aamer Khan, Jacob Shymanski, and Ramya Amuthan review “The Maid” by Nita Prose. A 2022 New York Times Best Seller, it sold over 2 million copies, but that doesn’t mean we’re sold on it. Jacob plans to approach this review with ruthless efficiency and discipline, but the rest of us are only in it for the chaos.HighlightsIntroducing “The Maid” by Nita Prose (00:00)The Agenda (00:51)Synopsis (01:36)Addressing the Elephant in the Room / Is it Icky? (04:01)Beefing with The Maid (13:41)Redeeming Qualities

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00:32:24

Author Interview: From Potential to Purpose by Marco...

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/26

“You’re only as good as the last person who remembers you.” This is the first line in Potential to Purpose by Marco Pasqua. Marco is an award-winning entrepreneur and accessibility advocate, and he shares his insights on writing the book on how fostering authentic relationships and focusing on creativity can genuinely transform our lives. This is not his auto-biography, but his personal stories certainly lead the way.

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00:30:04

Cozy Reading with Karen McKay

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/22

As the days get cold and dark, we settle in and hibernate with our books, maybe revisiting old favourites. But what draws us back to books we’ve already read? Is re-reading a waste of time? Karen McKay from the Centre for Equitable Library Access joins us to share her top cozy reads, and we explore the reasons we turn to our comfort books over and over again.

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00:29:31

Why do we relate to Fictional Characters?

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/18

Literary characters make for good friends, great enemies, andrealistic mirrors of who we are. Sometimes, we use them to imagine our lives in different ways; other times we just can’t believe what they would get up to. We dive into the ‘why’ of connecting with fictional characters, and the depths of what makes them stick with us.

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00:28:20

Author Interview: Don’t Snooze Your Dreams: Lessons...

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/15

Living with narcolepsy and cataplexy, Michelle Weger (rhymes with eager) has turned her toughest experiences into fuel to power her success. Don't Snooze Your Dreams, her memoir and self-help guide, takes us on her journey-from managing a rare debilitating sleep disorder to launching a successful business and becoming an advocate for narcolepsy awareness. Michelle and Jacob get into what it means to be diagnosed, the real role writing a book played in Michelle’s rehabilitation, and more about

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00:31:42

Question: Can you stand listening to synthetically...

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/12

Well… Can you? Some of us are not picking up a book if it’s labelled as anything other than human-narrated. With AI in the mix, others of us can’t even tell it’s not even recorded by a real human. Then there are a handful of us who are soothed by the familiar tones of our own screen-readers. We go through your hot takes on the topic.

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00:33:25

Review: The Wonder of Stevie, Audible Original

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/08

Jacob Shymanski thought he was Stevie Wonder’s Number 1 fan, until he heard Barack and Michelle Obama’s relationship started with bonding over the guy. We get into it when we review The Wonder of Stevie, an Audible Original Production, written and Hosted by New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, Wesley Morris.Sara Hillis, Ramya Amuthan, and Jacob Shymanski have a whole lot to say on the Audible production, and their impressions of Stevie Wonder after checking out this project.

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00:30:21

Part 2: How to be a resourceful audiobook listener

Audiobook Café ·

2024/11/05

Do ratings and reviews make an impact on what book we pick up next? Is mandatory reading during school prepping us to enjoy reading as adults? Where do we draw the line when it comes to taking Reddit recommendations. Jacob Shymanski and Ramya Amuthan hash out their thoughts around these questions.

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00:31:06

How to be a Resourceful Audiobook Listener

Audiobook Café ·

2024/10/28

There are numerous online resources that audiobook listeners can use for recommendations, reviews, summaries' discussions, etc. Ramya Amuthan is here today to explore the various options you can use to supplement the audiobook listening experience.

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