A wonderful trip back in time
Nov. 30th, 2011 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy brother is as much a fan of audio books as I am. A good one requires an excellent author and can be enhanced or ruined by a superb or a distracting reader. If I'm buying an audio book, I'll often search for a new author by searching my favorite readers. If I'm listening to library books, I'm even more judgmental. My brother and I swap 'here's a good one's' often and the recommendation he sent not long ago is so perfect it's hard to believe.
Waking up in Dixie is written by Haywood Smith who is an author I would normally ignore. She's written a lot but none of it would really appeal to me if I were just browsing through. I have no clue what led my brother to find this one but the idea that I might have just dismissed it out of book snobbery really gives me pause.
It's such a wonderful story. I'm about halfway done and even if it goes to shit starting now, it will still have been a great read.
I know nothing about Laura Merlington except that her reading of this excellent story turns a good story into a very wonderful experience.
I was raised mostly in North Carolina where the food, the accents, the mores and the culture were as tightly packed and shaped as any fine sculpture. There was precious little influence from outside anyone/anywhere. Rules were rules and what was, was, with no argument.
This story is set in contemporary times but the culture and the accents are exactly as they were in the 60's. And the voices that Merlington uses are those that surrounded me growing up. Sometimes I think i'm in my teenage room eavesdropping on my Mom's bridge club.
I generally listen to the book for an hour or so at night in bed before I go to sleep. I've discovered this week that several times during the day, I surprise myself by how much I am looking forward to my nightly read time when I can fire up the voices of my youth and listen to more of the story.
Waking up in Dixie is written by Haywood Smith who is an author I would normally ignore. She's written a lot but none of it would really appeal to me if I were just browsing through. I have no clue what led my brother to find this one but the idea that I might have just dismissed it out of book snobbery really gives me pause.
It's such a wonderful story. I'm about halfway done and even if it goes to shit starting now, it will still have been a great read.
I know nothing about Laura Merlington except that her reading of this excellent story turns a good story into a very wonderful experience.
I was raised mostly in North Carolina where the food, the accents, the mores and the culture were as tightly packed and shaped as any fine sculpture. There was precious little influence from outside anyone/anywhere. Rules were rules and what was, was, with no argument.
This story is set in contemporary times but the culture and the accents are exactly as they were in the 60's. And the voices that Merlington uses are those that surrounded me growing up. Sometimes I think i'm in my teenage room eavesdropping on my Mom's bridge club.
I generally listen to the book for an hour or so at night in bed before I go to sleep. I've discovered this week that several times during the day, I surprise myself by how much I am looking forward to my nightly read time when I can fire up the voices of my youth and listen to more of the story.
