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Hosts Lorie and Rae are on their way to the 25th Annual RT Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week and have promised (or suffer dismemberment the consequences) to blog and keep us up to date on their adventures from take off to touch down…and I’m NOT talking Steelers!

DH and I were discussing audio books this morning (in part b/c I'd left the case for the latest "read" that the kids and I are listening to at his place and it is unabridged except for taking out things like "s/he said" which aren't necessary when it's a full-cast book).

If you read the Anne of Green Gables books growing up (or later, too, I guess), I'm just wondering how you pronounced Avonlea in your head? I'm listening to two different recordings (just started) so I can decide which reader I like best and one pronounces it with the first "A" as a long A = AA-von-Lee and the other with a short first "A" --Aaa-von-lee. Naturally, the one that doesn't match how I always imagined it was pronounced is like being slapped every time the reader says it . . .

Those of you who have been around awhile and who have great memories will recall that I only started listening to audio books a couple of years ago. And I've enjoyed it. Oddly enough, my kids have gotten hooked and we listen in the car. Which means that I'm getting to enjoy children's books, too. And that led me to wonder if I could re-read old favorites from when I was a tween and teen.

From discussions in my first audio blog of the year and other places in the community, I thought that it might be nice if those of us who listen to audio with our kids (or just for ourselves LOL) to recommend or warn each other about them. So I'll start.

I am hoping to get real reviews written of these for my website's update this month which is why I'm not blogging at the challenge yet. I'll add the final reviews. And if I don't get the final reviews done, I'll post entries over there for each full length book.