Reading From the Ears Up: Reader/Listener Appeal of the Audio Book International Popular Culture Association Conference July 22, 2015 Kaite Mediatore Stover Director of Readers’ Services The Kansas City Public Library
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Reading From the Ears Up: Reader/Listener Appeal of the Audio
Book International Popular Culture Association Conference July 22,
2015 Kaite Mediatore Stover Director of Readers Services The Kansas
City Public Library
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Appeal terms should resonate with readers, even if they have
not used those exact terms Print appeal categories: Storyline Pace
Tone Writing style Illustration NoveList narrative appeal
vocabulary Describes the voice quality, tone, and artistic delivery
of the narrator Also identifies aspects of the performance, i.e.
performed by a full cast, in front of a live audience, etc.
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The Graveyard Book Written and narrated by Neil Gaiman Other
titles: We Are Water by Wally Lamb Flight Behavior by Barbara
Kingsolver Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
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Death Waits at Sundown Written by L. Ron Hubbard Narrated by a
full cast Other titles: Enders Game Alive by Orson Scott Card 8 by
Dustin Lance Black Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur C.
Doyle
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Other titles: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
Narrated by Simon Vance Aint She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Narrated by Kate Fleming Phryne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood.
Narrated by Stephanie Daniel Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. Narrated
by Daniel Weyman Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Written by
J.K. Rowling Narrated by Jim Dale
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The Help Written by Katherine Stockett Narrated by Octavia
Spencer, Bahni Turpin, Cassandra Campbell, and Jenna Lamia Other
titles: The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell. Narrated by
Nicholas Tecofsky Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Narrated
by the author The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Narrated
by Grover Gardner
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Refers to the style of narration NOT the response evoked in the
listener. Detached narratorEmotionally connected narrator
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