Audiobook. Imagine hearing the details of sex involving a hugely overweight narrator who always refers to his hands as “squishy” while you are at the gym at the crack of dawn. And I pick his word for his hands to avoid more indelicate possibilities. The narrator, for most of the book, is trying to escape St. Petersburg after the killing of his father, but he can’t get a visa...
Audiobook. Although the story of a person who wakes up one morning turned into a large horrid beetle is not going to be a light hearted tale, this Kafta work is less oppressive than The Trial. A certain humor creeps in occasionally in the absurd situation Gregor and his family (father, mother, and younger sister) find themselves in. The fear that is evident in all the main characters is similar...
I began listening to this audiobook late in December and finished January 22, listening most days for a short time while I walked. Toni Morrison is both a beautiful writer and reader. I think I could happily listen to her read the phone book. I keep hearing her say the name Setha. The horrifying story of a group of enslaved people from a farm called Sweet Home, beginning before the Civil War and...
The Trial was very difficult to read — I was always looking for an escape. The chief clerk of a bank, a successful functionary in the bureaucracy, is arrested by a court that operates in secret. One of its rules is that the accused can never learn what the charges are. The horror of this book is that the fantastic is recounted as if it were perfectly normal. We are all aware of the counter...
Audiobook read by Ruby Dee. I read this book perhaps 10 years ago and remember liking it very much. But hearing it was a different experience altogether. You always hear that certain writing is meant to be heard rather than read, but this is the first time I’ve experienced that. The language was just, well, poetic, I guess. Although you’ve never seen the words used in just that way...
Audiobook. Engaging science book, just flowed by every morning! But
remember, why worry, there will be a volcano or meteor or something
that ends it all, probably before we do. Perhaps the “inter-ice-age”
we’re in will come to an end.
Audiobook. Wonderful Paul Auster. Older man alone ready to die at the
outset finds friendship, incredible adventure, and love And reconnects
with family. Such a treat.
Audiobook. Wonderful. Bits of stories that go nowhere. Writer in Brooklyn
recovering from serious health problem discovers a magic notebook in a
disappearing stationery supply store…..