I’m beginning to think there’s a Bad Take Troll out there somewhere with regular reminders in his calendar to start desmadre, and one of his favorite pots to stir is the one about audiobooks counting as reading. Why he decided to send the psychologist from Law & Order SVU as his messenger this time around is beyond me, but let’s just clear this up now: audiobooks count as reading, y punto. Full stop. Shoutout to Roxane Gay (and countless others) for calling out this foolishness.
Audiobooks have saved my reading over the last several years. They’ve helped me balance the reading required of me for my job with reading for pleasure. They’ve allowed me to engage differently with poetry and nonfiction, where hearing the words read by their authors added a new layer to the reading experience. They’ve allowed me to keep reading, period, when my focus was too frazzled to do eyeball reading, and pulled me out of the roughest of reading slumps in difficult times. So today, I’m rounding up a few of my favorite audiobooks by Latine authors, and tossing up the bird to anyone who deserves it.
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