Yes, it’s short, but give your mind the gift of taking Momaday’s poems in slowly, preferably while sitting quietly in the natural world, logged off from the Internet and checked out from the news. (“A Century of Impressions,” for example, comprises 100 discrete images, each composed in haiku’s 5-7-5 syllabic meter, while “Prairie Hymn” follows a precise formula from the Chippewa oral tradition.) Rich and deliberately modulated, his narration cracks these poems wide open, unfurling them like the ribbons of horizon he keeps coming back to, and making clear just how important oral performance is to poetry as an art form. Scott Momaday, who stepped into the recording booth this year to read The Death of Sitting Bear, a new collection of poems rooted both in the customs and traditions of his upbringing on Navajo, Apache and Pueblo reservations in the American Southwest, and in his academic background in poetic traditions from around the world. It’s hard to imagine a more sonorous voice than that of Kiowa poet N. Scott Momaday Run time: 2 hours 29 minutes Audible | Libro.fm | Overdrive | Soundcloud The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Note: The titles below are organized by run time, shortest to longest. (Oh, and if you’re looking for a last-minute, indie-supporting gift for that awesome audiobibliophile in your life, a Libro.fm gift subscription, benefitting your favorite local independent bookstore, will never go wrong…) May your own listening be joyful and doom-free. And hopefully you, too.Īnd so: This is my list of the best audiobooks of 2020, chosen not because they’re so much better, necessarily, than every other title that hit the audio shelves this year (I’m still just one person I can’t catch everything), but rather because, for one reason or another, they each shone brightly enough to make me pull my head out of the sand, stop doomscrolling, and listen. Happily, while 2020 might not have given the world much of anything else, it did leave us with so many exceptional new audiobooks that, eventually, enough killer listens came my way that I couldn’t not climb out of my non-reading funk. New books? In this economy? Who could ever! I’m talking about Ron.)Ī generous read might be that this was my take on comfort listening-both Harry Potter and Percy Jackson topped Tumblr’s Year in Review Books list this year, so clearly I wasn’t alone in reaching to the deepest corners of my personal shelves to make it through-but honestly, it felt a whole lot more like sticking my head in storytelling sand. For months, the only thing I could manage to lose myself in was the French version of Harry Potter, and only then because my listening skills were rusty enough that maybe only 63% of it had any chance of making it to my brain-43%, if any of the characters given a lisp by narrator Bernard Giraudeau were talking. After putting the bow on my last big audiobook piece to go up back before any of us understood just how deeply this whole thing would end up being this whole thing ( “An Expert’s Guide to Finding and Listening to Amazing Audiobooks While Social Distancing”), I hit the biggest reading roadblock of my life. But whereas previous years saw the boom in audio-forward storytelling rise to meet the audio-friendly spaces created by increasingly long commutes and the cultural pressure to consume more content, more of the time, 2020 found most of us at home, bereft of both the moments we might have previously set aside for extended listening, and the mental bandwidth to consume much of any longform audio content at all.Īt least, that was my experience. As has been the case for the last many years, the audiobook scene only got richer and more ambitious as 2020 rolled on.
BEST AUDIO BOOK 2021 MAC
The second law of thermodynamics says it can’t happen, but you think of your mother a second before she calls" – which Julian Rhind-Tutt (the once and future Dr Mac Macartney from Green Wing) captures perfectly.Not for the quality, of course.
Knight has an impeccably dry, precise style –"Premonitions are impossible, and they come true all the time. He goes searching for seers among the British public, and finds his own future rushing to meet him. Sam Knight, occasionally of this parish, tells the stranger than fiction story of a respected psychologist who tried to prove that some people can predict the future, and to build a kind of extra-sensory early warning system for to avert disasters. By 9.14am her school was covered in coal spoil from tips high on the hillside above her hometown, Aberfan, and Eryl was dead. "Something black had come down all over it," she told her mother. Eryl Mai Jones had seen herself going to school, but when she got there the school was gone. On the morning of 20 October 1966, a young girl woke up from a dream.
Audible The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
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