A recent op-ed in the New York Times revived the outdated question of whether listening is reading. Enough already! If an audiobook fires up your empathy, immerses you in the story or argument and enriches your life, it is reading!
Here now are three books that should be read through your ears.
I’m firmly on the bandwagon of Virginia Evans’ “The Correspondent.” It’s a wonderful epistolary novel that truly comes alive when you can hear the intonation of each letter writer.
If you haven’t had a chance to read Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” listen to it on these dark winter nights. The cast is remarkable and each voice shimmers with originality.
Finally, I discovered that many of my book-loving adventurers on my recent trip to India’s tiger reserves were listening to “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” a memoir and audiobook narrated by the author herself, Arundhati Roy. It’s now on my list!
It took decades for Christine Kuehn to uncover her family’s secret past — that they were Nazi spies who fed information to the Japanese in the run-up to Pearl Harbor.
The TV drama "Heated Rivalry," based on the book by Rachel Reid, has become a global sensation. It follows the story of two professional men’s hockey players who fall in love and hide their romance from the world.
Brooke Nevils was working for NBC at the Sochi Olympics when, she says, she was sexually assaulted by "Today Show" host Matt Lauer — a claim he denies. Nevils’ new memoir is “Unspeakable Things.”
