Taped King by Tommia Wright

It’s National Audiobook Month, so I thought it would be a good day to review memoirs. I’ve read a few on the iTunes Top 100 list, but had only listened to one – Stephen King’s On Writing. King proves to be one of the few authors who can read their own writing and make it equally enjoyable to ears and eyes.

I had the book and tape at about the same time (until loaning one, losing the other – only took ten years to have both items again). Where I had chuckled over paragraphs of King’s personal choices and preferences, I laughed out loud hearing them during the regular commute. It’s one thing to read a letter from a friend, another when you have a chance to enjoy a lengthy phone call. That’s what this book (and a few other King items) was.

It’s also ‘media Monday’ – or what I call my excuse to peruse the collection of videos, audio, etc. I can borrow from both the county and city libraries. Of course, my memory is such that I won’t remember the downloaded/borrowed videos until the day after they’ve expired. So, I’ve borrowed the same media titles over and over again. Last night’s browsing brought up the following gems for listening:

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
• A Mother for All Seasons
• How Starbucks Saved My Life
• Galileo’s Daughter and
• A Long Way Gone.

I’ve read the last three books and have decided to let someone else tell the tale. My habit when choosing audiobooks almost always begins with the reader. In this case, Dylan Baker hooked me for Starbucks, George Guidall for Galileo and Dominic Hoffman for Long Way. I’m not familiar with the readers of the first two books, but the summaries made the life stories compelling, so I’m sure I’m in for an enlightening discovery either way.

What books have you heard lately? Which readers could entertain you all day? Which book/reader pairings would you like to see-hear?