2 days ago
The best audiobooks to listen to this summer
M y ideal holiday reading list would include something old as well as new. You need a couple of novels that, rather like those frescoes you must get to tomorrow, have stood the test of time and achieved some kind of classic status.
And increasingly, if I am going to re-read a familiar author, I do it through audiobooks. This is partly practical: time is beating on, and I also want to read new fiction. But it is also romantic. There are novels that I have an intense memory of first encountering. To just re-read can overlay and diminish that memory, whereas listening can amplify it. Years have passed, and you are meeting an old acquaintance again, in a different setting. Whereas once you were in thrall to their character and stories, perhaps now you are more critical. Were they always this vicious? Such a snob?
