I have a girl crush on Elizabeth Gilbert’s voice. She seems like such an interesting lady and her warm writing style envelops me like a warm throw blanket and a cup of hot tea. I jumped on the Liz love bandwagon after reading her smash hit Eat, Pray, Love and enjoyed every minute of her [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘audio’
April 23, 2010
Review – We Need to Talk about Kevin
I had no idea Lionel Shriver was female. The entire time I listened to this book on audio I was picturing a male writer describing visceral and extremely deep and fundamentally female emotions as well as the kinds of things mothers are not “supposed” to say. I was puzzled and amazed that a male writer [...]
March 15, 2010
Review – Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
If you are looking for an audio book to make you laugh, this is not it. In fact, many times I thought to myself how not funny Steve Martin’s early jokes were. If you want to laugh, you’re better off with an actual performance recording. However, one of the things that makes this book interesting [...]
November 12, 2009
Review – A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel has the driest and most wonderful sense of humor this side of the Mississippi. Her memoir of growing up in Moreland, Indiana does not have much of a plot and reads a bit like a series of short stories which made it perfect on audio. Kimmel herself narrates and her cadence and tone [...]
