Reddit mentions of White Queen

Great topic! I’ve wanted to make one about this !

I’ve been buying ebooks on the iBookstore since almost the beginning of my foray into romance so I kind of just stuck with that.

I haven’t really tried kindle or overdrive even though they seem great, idk why 😂

Other than that, if it’s not a romance novel, I almost always read hard copy.

But never under any circumstances have I bought an actual hard copy romance. (Yeah, I’m one of those utterly stupid women who wouldn’t be caught dead reading a romance)

I still find it extremely bummy that I have to read my romances in ebook form instead of in the form that I enjoy the most, hard copy. I think I might have actually liked some romances which didn’t like at the time of reading if I had just read it in paperback.

But some upsides to having my romances as ebooks (apart from people not knowing what you’re reading) is that you can resume reading for a few minutes, anytime anywhere. Whenever I’m waiting around like on line at the coffee shop for example, I can open up my iBooks app on my phone.

Audiobooks, NO NO NO NO NO.

And to be fair, I’ve tried so many. I still try audiobook excerpts thinking that I might find one that I like.

It really sucks because I could be saving so much time by listening to audiobooks instead of sitting down and reading.

I just can’t focus on them. I find myself constantly spacing out and then rewinding.

A big reason why I can’t do audiobooks (apart from other reasons) is because I can’t stand female narrators, and since most of romance narrators are female, that makes me super cranky when listening 😂. I find that I‘m ok enough with male narrators that I can get through the story.

At first I thought it was because audiobooks weren’t my thing. But after many trials and errors, I’ve found that if anything, I have to be more interested in the narrator’s voice and the way he/she is narrating than the actual story to be captured by the audiobook. That pretty much never happens. (This might be the case for other audiobook haters as well).

However, I’ve found ONE narrator who does this for me. She happens to be female, oh the irony! Susan Lyons (narrator of The White Queen by Philippa Gregory.

I find myself SO ENTRANCED by her smexy raspy, elegant, deep-voiced narrations. 😂

She hasn’t narrated any other book I’d be remotely interested in, and I’ve yet to find another narrator that I adore this much (though I keep trying.) So that’s why I’m preciously saving this book up for when my sister has her “exercise phases” and drags me along on 2-4 hour long walks. (I listen sparingly during these walks, trying to save up this audiobook as best as I can.)