Having run through most of what our local library had available in audiobooks, I took the plunge and joined Audible.com. So now I'm like a kid in the candystore...I want this. And this. And all of that. Like Earl in the movie Diner, I feel like ordering the entire left side of the menu.
I noticed earlier this week that several additional works by Vladimir Nabokov have been added just in the past month: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Invitation to a Beheading, Bend Sinister, and Mary. I wanted to pass this on to those that enjoy audiobooks--some of these are available outside of Audible.com while others will be released later this month.
I finish Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life (highly recommended in any format) today or Monday and will start Speak, Memory...I'm definitely looking forward to it.
Although I haven't read other Nabakov yet, I loved _Speak, Memory_ when I read it many years ago. I remember the lush language primarily, but also how wonderful his more abstract discussions of memory are. Hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I don't "substitute" audiobooks for the reading of a book...I hope to come back to this and read it as well. In the meantime, I'll have to make do with listening to it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about others, but sometimes something "clicks" when listening to a book that I missed while reading it. The difficult part is remembering the point until I get home or to work so I can write it down!