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The Marriage Plot on Audio

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The Marriage Plot (Audio)

For the past few months, I’ve been following up a read with its audio counterpart. I can’t do this for every book but when I do, I am always amazed at how it comes across on audio. Most times, I find the audio version to be good, if not better than the reading experience but that often has to do with the reader or the pacing of the book, etc. I find this practice particularly useful if a book went over my head.

Now in the case of The Marriage Plot, I loved it. Although the pace was a bit slow here and there, I appreciated the themes and how Eugenides handled his characters. You can read my review of the book here. That said, I am thinking that maybe the audio version would be even better.

Check out this clip provided by Macmillan Audio. Doesn’t it sound good?

Have you listened to the audio version? Did you like it?

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Work It

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What I'm Reading

After being out of the reading world for what seems like forever, but in reality has only been ten days, I feel the need to push myself to get back into the rhythm of reading. It’s like that little known muscle you have in the back of your leg that you suddenly notice after falling down a million times when skiing.  Well, that happens when “I” ski, anyway. I was reading during the show, but they were all DNF’s (did not finish) and instead of calling them out as such, I am just going to chalk it up to me and my scattered brain. If I can’t concentrate on the book in front of me, I’d rather not read. So in between the show, I watched The Big Bang Theory and The Wonder Years. Comfort viewing if you ask me.

However, I began to get the reading itch again this past Monday. Much like starting a fitness routine, I am easing my way into reading again and it feels good. I have been reading Then Again by Diane Keaton and The Technologists by Matthew Pearl. One is a memoir and the other has to do with the introduction of technology as a science in 1868. Both are fascinating and just what I need to get back on the horse, so to speak.

Now that I have those two in full swing, I plan to add my book club pick to the mix which happens to be my pick from last year, The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds. It is about famed nature poet John Clare’s stay in a mental institution. It’s fiction, but it sounds wonderful.

So that is what I am doing right now. Limping along, building up the muscles that atrophied during the week of the show. I can almost hear the theme from Rocky in the background. Almost.