Moreover, the book is like an allegory of the challenges we face in today’s dark times. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” - the author has created another world that becomes totally real even as the story grips you. His mastery of the different voices of his characters is quite extraordinary. Another audiobook: “Beautiful Ruins,” by Jess Walter. The reader matters - I love Hugh Fraser’s voice. I need something soothing to stop the racing thoughts about all I haven’t managed to accomplish that day and all I have to do the next. Don’t know how long they’ll sit there, though - no time to read them.īy the end of a day of Zooms and Skypes and emails my eyes are too tired to read, so I turn to audiobooks. I skimmed it and it is an extraordinary and chillingly true autobiography. And “Cult: Following My Escape and Return to the Children of God,” by Bexy Cameron. It is brilliant and I know the author, Imran Ahmad. “The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West,” to remind me to reread. Doctor Dolittle and Tarzan led me to dream about living with animals in Africa.” I read every book about animals I could find. “There was no TV when I was a child,” says the primatologist Jane Goodall, author (most recently) of “The Book of Hope.” “I learned from books - and nature.
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