So I think that you get past the level of just the meaning of the words and you can really shine a light on nuance. You have to kind of pull up implication, you have to detect.
what's implied in the text by the author, but not specifically explained. "Because when I read a book, I'm focusing on. "When you hear a really good narrator, you get the benefit of a certain level of emotional intelligence," Miles tells Bustle. Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures. A 2017 inductee to Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame, Miles has narrated over 200 titles, including Roxane Gay's An Untamed State, N.K.
Much of that feeling can be attributed to the narrator - and Robin Miles is among the best. Anybody who has listened to an audiobook knows that they have enormous power to transport you into a story in a way that reading in print doesn't quite do. ↑ "The 2014 Listen-Up Awards: The Best Audiobooks of the Year".↑ "Robin Miles is 2014 Voice of Choice #audiomonth".↑ "AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Narrator Robin Miles".↑ "THE STAR SIDE OF BIRD HILL by Naomi Jackson Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ "THE OBELISK GATE by NK Jemisin Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ "AMERICAN STREET by Ibi Zoboi Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ "THE STONE SKY by NK Jemisin Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ "BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston Deborah G Plant Ed Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ 6.0 6.1 "THE SHADOW KING by Maaza Mengiste Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ "THE VELA by SL Huang Rivers Solomon Becky Chambers Yoon Ha Lee Read by Robin Miles | Audiobook Review".↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "This Legendary Audiobook Narrator Has A Fascinating Process For Getting Into Character".↑ Voice of Choice: Robin Miles, by Joyce Saricks | Booklist Online.↑ Robin Miles | Audio Books, Best Sellers, Narrator Bio |.And now, I think we're also beginning to hopefully, break through that again." Miles has narrated a wide range of genres including children's books, non-fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, biography and other genres including the Young Reader's Edition of Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold. And then, when a little more diversity came in, it was like, well nobody can do anything outside of their yard. It really started out with such a small pool of people, that the people they had did everything whether or not they could handle the accent and culture.
"It was like, 'You do the black books, and you're Jewish, you do the Jewish books.' I was totally shocked," she says. When she started narration work, Miles was surprised by how ethnically segregated the work was considering it is voice work. She started book narration by volunteering to read for the American Foundation for the Blind and the National Library Service. Īfter graduating and moving to New York City, Miles was looking for community service volunteer opportunities. Miles graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies and she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Drama from Yale School of Drama. Miles started in musical theater, but transitioned to drama. Robin Miles grew up in New Jersey and credits her immigrant neighborhood for immersing her in a rich world of accents, languages and cultures which she has been able to draw on for her narration work.
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