I’m still reading Swing Time and The Bone Clocks! I realize they are taking me forever, but I am savoring them instead of devouring them. However, I need to pick up the pace with The Bone Clocks because the other #BoneClocks17 Readalong participants are way ahead of me!
So today I’m going to talk about my current audiobooks.
I listened to Memory Man by David Baldacci last week because I have never tried reading one of his books and he is so popular at the library.
The main character in Memory Man, Amos Decker, has an altered brain due to an injury resulting in synesthesia and a photographic memory. In addition, he has suffered a hugely tragic loss, so he has the potential to be an interesting detective character and the book could go into some fascinating neuroscience digressions, but if you take away the action of the story, there’s not much else there, so I won’t be going on to #2 in the Amos Decker series (The Last Mile). Not right away, anyway.
Audiobook narrators Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy are very good individually, and I like them both. but I didn’t like having Orlagh Cassidy pipe up only whenever a female character said something (even just in Amos Decker’s memory), when the bulk of the book was narrated by Ron McLarty. That was distracting!
This week I’ll be listening to Wicked Autumn, an English village mystery, too dark to be a cozy, by G.M. Malliett, which is more my cuppa. The detective character, Max Tudor, is a tall, rangy, recently ordained Anglican priest who is a former MI5 agent. The village of Nether Monkslip, where he is the vicar, is full of promisingly quirky characters; one of whom is now dead. Next up will be A Fatal Winter (Max Tudor series, #2)!
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever-growing TBR pile! So welcome in, everyone. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at Book Date.
Subscribing from #IMWAYR. (That’s so much easier than typing out all the words! *lol*) Audio is one of my least used (?) book formats. Don’t know why, really. Maybe I should give them another try, eh?
Here’s my #IMWAYR post!
Memory Man looks good…it’s been a while since I read Baldacci. Thanks for sharing, and here are MY WEEKLY UPDATES
Reading slowly is good I think, except when you have to catch up! Always great to enjoy audio, helps with getting books read but they bring an added dimension as well.
I have been enjoying audios lately but not in a large number.
Looks like a good week for you, Laurie.
Thanks for coming by my blog.
Elizabeth
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