What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.Ĭharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Charlie learned how to take care of himself-and his dad. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. One of the hottest audiobooks out there now: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. Up with audiobooks and that sort of thing.Our new list of best-selling crime, mystery and thriller audiobooks for September 2022 includes new Longmire mystery Hell and Back by Craig Johnson as well as highly anticipated Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens.įor our coverage of best and most notable audiobooks, please visit here. 'Comparing audio books to cheating,' He says, 'Is like meeting a friend at Disneyland and saying “you took a bus here? I drove myself, you big cheater.”' In fact, Daniel says that, in calling listening to audiobooks 'cheating' you refer to consuming books as a chore. However, he argues that most texts aren't that complicated and so, in reading, you're doing what the audiobook would do automatically. The argument is that audiobooks put prosody in for you whereas in reading, you have to work it out yourself. The answer comes down to 'prosody' - which refers to 'changes in pacing, pitch and rhythmn in speech'. 'Does your mind do more or less the same thing when you listen to an audiobook and when you read print? The answer is 'mostly'' He says. See, Daniel Willingham, a psychologist from the University of Washington (I reckon he's got a few more qualifications than you old boss lady) got so irked about this question that he wrote a blog post about it. 'CAN'T YOU READ?!' She trilled, before walking off down the office, laughing merrily, leaving everyone in my wake staring at my sorry, presumably illiterate self. One time, I told my old boss I listened to audiobooks. Good news fellow audiobook listeners - audiobooks definitely aren't 'cheating'.

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