Friday, August 14, 2009
Reading and reading
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On the strong recommendation of a friend and after reading a whole lot of wildly enthusiastic book blogging about Maud Hart Lovelace, I bought the first Betsy-Tacy story and hope to read it this weekend with one of t2cgitw since she's the same age as the main character. If I like it even a tiny percent as much as the recommenders, I will then be reading all the sequels that take Betsy eventually into her twenties.
I also bought the unabridged audio of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which has been raved about and does sound intriguing. I enjoy "reading" this way on almost-work-day-long drives because it makes the length of the drive seem like something I actually choose and want to do, apart from getting to the destination, of course. I only buy unabridged audios so I know I'm not losing any important words even if there are things perhaps lost in the translation from printed and internalized to spoken and heard. A while ago, I "read" Charles McCarry's Tears of Autumn which was so good that I proceeded to read the "real" book to spend more time with the characters and see if the audio failed to convey any nuances (not many).
I also bought the unabridged audio of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which has been raved about and does sound intriguing. I enjoy "reading" this way on almost-work-day-long drives because it makes the length of the drive seem like something I actually choose and want to do, apart from getting to the destination, of course. I only buy unabridged audios so I know I'm not losing any important words even if there are things perhaps lost in the translation from printed and internalized to spoken and heard. A while ago, I "read" Charles McCarry's Tears of Autumn which was so good that I proceeded to read the "real" book to spend more time with the characters and see if the audio failed to convey any nuances (not many).
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