There’s a lot of fun audiobook discussion happening on Devourer of Books for audiobook week, and since my Mom and I spend a significant amount of time on the phone with each other discussing audiobooks, I figured I should get in on the conversation. Today’s prompt is: “How do you decide what you’ll listen to?… Continue reading Audiobook Week!
Month: June 2013
Second Tattoo
Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald
Signs you’re not reading an ordinary book: 1. You read a passage and then immediately go back to the beginning of it and read it again, slower, because it was so hauntingly beautiful that you need to re-experience it. 2. You’re pretty sure, by page 20, that the author is going to become one of… Continue reading Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald
Slightly Foxed
I’d like to recommend a fantastic literary quarterly to you. It’s called Slightly Foxed. I found it by way of Quarterly.co – I subscribed to Gretchen Rubin as soon as I saw that she was a curator. (Last year I read and loved Gretchen’s book on positive psychology and the importance of the things you do daily, The… Continue reading Slightly Foxed