Books I've Sampled February 2016--Mostly on Audible

I forgot to mention in my blog on breakfast buffet of books the fire I build to set the scene:  a candle I light in the center of the fireplace.

And now....the books I've read, at least in part, so far this month, February 2016:

A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins, who was at Bookshop West Portal last night in conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie, reading from and talking about The Portable Veblen.  I'm waiting for her book in paperback, but I bought his and listened to the first hour or so early this morning.  (Such a fascinating idea that it's his father's diaries that are being fed into the computer!)

Celine Dion's Let's Talk about Love by Carl Wilson, all of which I've listened to at least once on Audible, anxious to mark favorite passages in the book-in-print, which is the expanded Let's Talk about Love:  Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste.   This book is totally engaging, like Nick Horny's More Baths, Less Talking, which mentioned it and motivated me to read it.

Everything I've Never Told You by Celeste Ng--Only parts, and I can't even tell you which parts!  I have it only on Audible.

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue--very little--only on Audible

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante--I've listened to most of this on Audible, and I have the book, but I haven't fallen in love with it.  I hear I'm missing something wonderful.

Power Wars:  Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency  by Charlie Savage  I've listened to this very little, on Audible, but now I'm going to make an effort to pay closer attention so this list has more meaning by the end of the month.

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem  I've really read this--first on Audible and then in the print version a friend (Maxine Einhorn) gave me for my 70th birthday.  But here's a thought I'd like to share:  Gloria Steinem reads only the preface.  Debora Winger reads the rest of the book.  I think this is because Gloria Steinem's voice is old at 80 something (I was thinking 70-something until I looked it up; she was born 1934!), and Debra Winger's a young thing at only 60.  (She was born 1955.)  This is something that's affecting me as I recount "How South Pacific Changed My Life.)

No Good Men among the Living:  America, the Taliban, and the War through an Afghan's Eyes by Anand Gopal.  I've listened to this and I have it in print, I think, but I need to give it more attention.

70 Things to Do When You Turn 70  I'm reading this with my eyes--one or two every morning as part of the breakfast buffet of books.  So far the best one is Marshall P. Duke's "Sometimes 70 Is Just 70."   I'll write more about this book (and others) at the end of the month.