June is Audiobook Appreciation Month — and as an audiobook narrator, I should probably have a tidy origin story about how I always loved the spoken word. The truth is a little more complicated than that. I still have the boxes. Boxes of books. Real ones — paperbacks with cracked spines, hardcovers with dog-eared pages, some with Post-it notes still tucked inside from decades ago. They're not going anywhere. Some of them are older than my now-adult kids. They live in my storag