'It’s a detailed and complex story that rewards multiple listens, with lots of long descriptions of interiors, meals, shopping trips, walks in bluebell woods, et cetera. It’s also funny in a gentle witty way, not a distracting LOL way,' writes emilygould
Photo: Retailers Having a story read to us has calmed humans down for centuries. It’s why we were read to in bed as toddlers, and it’s the reason the Von Trapp children all rush into Maria’s room as soon as the thunderstorm hits in The Sound of Music.
“The conversational tone of Sally Rooney’s coming-of-age novel is truly at home in an audio setting, mainly due to the skilled narration by Irish actress Aoife McMahon. Conversations With Friends is a story about the way our emotional impulses are in constant conflict with social restraint, and Aoife’s voice lends instant charm and authenticity to the inner world of 21-year-old college student Frances.
From $15 at Audible Buy $16 at Amazon Buy “Say Nothing,” read by Matthew Blaney From $15 “Another audiobook I’ve listened to during the pandemic is Patrick Radden-Keefe’s award-winning story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Because it’s an Irish narrator, it really feels perfect. I wrote something on Twitter about how much I loved it, and a bunch of people came out to tell me they felt exactly the same way, including Radden-Keefe himself.
From $15 at Audible Buy $26 at Amazon Buy “Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home,” read by Nina Stibbe From $15 “When it comes to calming audiobooks, I’d vote for Nina Stibbe reading her memoir, Love, Nina. It’s the funny, charming, weird true story of Stibbe’s time being a nanny for a family in London, and since it’s told through tiny letters to her sister, it’s easy to pick it up, put it down, then pick it up again.
“The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires,” read by Bahni Turpin From $15 “Throughout this pandemic, I have been hand-selling this audiobook like my own personal hoard of quilted Northern pastel toilet paper. It’s pure escapism. I judge an audiobook by how much housework it makes me want to do — to keep listening to this one, I ironed a fitted sheet. This book’s got everything: humor, horror, heart, and a book club that thinks The Bridges of Madison County is about a serial killer.
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