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The audiobook category is expanding every day, and we certainly cant listen to everything.
I might have been okay without Courics description of swamp-ass, however.
It must mean it was addictively weird, like David Sedaris.
That made me feel better, because I love listening to David Sedaris.
I also love Tracey Ullman.
Half of this book shes me, Sedaris explains, but I wish I was her.
Also, Tucci has a proclivity for synonyms when he doesnt want to repeat a word.
Does anyone even really say fete out loud?
I also learned about his affection for Velveeta-and-mayo sandwiches, which do not sound appealing at all.
Theres a similar problem here to Tuccis book.
I cant make a quilt from someone reading me the directions.
Also, Foster describes a performance that awoke her love for musicals and Sondheim.
When Foster refers to her idol as Patti Fucking LuPone, I turned to mush.
Now hes making Audible Originals.
But the theatrical references Edward Albee!
are surprisingly on point.
Read by:Mary-Louise ParkerLength:11 hours, 36 minutesSpeed I listened:1.8x
John Grisham writes a darn good yarn.
Her voice doesnt sound wide-eyed, drippy, or ironic.
Unfortunately, that character only appears in a few scenes.
Mr. Grisham: Lets do a spinoff?
But it turns out that the actress has also narrated many of Beverly ClearysRamona Quimbybooks, too.
Occasionally, when she speaks as Bug, she sounds too much like a whining moppet.
But we still could use more Stockard Channing in our lives.
Its not like I even knew whoDaniel Slosswas when I started it.
I assumed he was a shrink.
Hes a moppy-haired Scottish comedian.
Sloss makes the point that when youre lonely, you do the wrong things.
You do things that make you even sadder, like listening to depressing music or watching romantic comedies.
The more people in the porn youre watching, the lonelier you are, Sloss explains.
I think it was Nelson Mandela who said that.
That made me guffaw.
Sloss writes that his goal here is to make you snort on a bus as youre listening.
Im pretty sure I did that on the M66 to Lincoln Center.
