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Okay, so this is a quick post about my new-found love of audiobooks. I recently wrote about my love of podcasts so I decided I should tell you how audiobooks have helped me renew my love of reading - giving me the ability to actually remember plots, and (most importantly) finish books.
She has the ability to say just what you need to hear, without ever having met you. Like, [hey Beth], if you start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are".
Some were longer, some were shorter, but I finished them. As someone with ADHD who can barely get through a chapter of a book without having to re-read it several times, this was huge. It makes me wonder what I could have achieved if I had Audible back when I was studying for my degree in English Literature... but that's another story.
The essays in Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls and Me Talk Pretty One Day, are hilariously funny. In the audiobook versions, several of these essays are performed by Sedaris in front of an audience, making the audiobook that little bit more insightful into his position as both a writer and performer.
The Girl on the Train (not to be confused with the confusingly similarly titled, Girl on a Train) is actually pretty good. A mystery novel, it tells first-person stories from three women whose lives intertwine in a number of ways. Set in and around 2013-London, I guess it was a little too modern (and fictional) for my liking, but none the less, it was enjoyable!
Okay, I admit, I didn't have a clue about this book before I read it. I saw that Aziz Ansari had a new book and presumed it would be an autobiography of a similar style to those of Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, and Tina Fey. Plus, it's Aziz who is just the best. Modern Romance turned out to be one of the most interesting books I've read this year.
This is not an autobiography. Aziz Ansari worked alongside sociologists and psychologists to conduct actual academic research on how people form relationships in the 21st Century and how these have changed dramatically in such a short space of time.
So Aziz does mock the audiobook listener on a several occasions for making him read it to you because we're lazy. But that's okay, Mr Ansari. One day you'll read this post and see the light on audiobooks.
I'll admit, when I read Wild I didn't know it had already been made into a movie with Reese Witherspoon. This is one of those books that fits into the winning category where it feels like fiction but is actually based on the real-life experiences, making me enjoy it a little more.
Okay, it can be a bit soppy at times, but because the book chronicles the true story of Cheryl Strayed's own hike on the Pacific Crest Trail from California to Washington state, it's actually pretty great! (Yes, I really don't like fiction. Is that an ADHD thing? Or just a Beth thing?)
Wrong. Actually we're the best we've ever been and Steven Pinker provides so much evidence to back this up, that he leaves you feeling more optimistic and positive about the world we live in that you won't even doubt it.
This has been my favourite book so far this year. Like Wild, this is a first-person autobiographical account of an amazing story by an amazing woman (okay, a young girl defecting from North Korea alone is a little more astonishing than an American hiking the west coast of the US alone, but you know what I mean).
This book taught me a huge amount about aspects of North Korean culture I wasn't aware of - its version of a caste system, its relationships with China and South Korea, the lives of wealthier North Koreans.
I'd love to hear what your favourite books are and if you've tried Audible or other audiobooks before. Do they help you process the information? Or are you a book nerd who never struggles with reading? (Maybe you are! You did make it to the end of this post, after all!)
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