Normally I'm a paper book kind of person. I tried the kindle for a while, but honestly, I love the tactile nature of a book in the hand. The passage of pages, seeing your bookmark slowly creep through the volume. The sound of an aggressive page flip when you can't wait to find out what happens next. There's just something about it that can't be replicated digitally (in my humble opinion).
However, there have been a few books that I just couldn't get into in paperback form, but that I really loooved via audiobook. Landline by Rainbow Rowell is one of those. After reading Attachments for my book club which I absolutely adored, I picked up Landline at the library and was underwhelmed. I don't know what it was exactly about this title, but after several attempts and impending boredness, I just couldn't get into it.
Normally, I'd just let it go and move on, after all there are plenty of books in the sea...but I kept hearing friends mention this title, offering their own rave reviews, which led me to try it once more via audiobook. Boom! Such a difference! Rainbow Rowell write great dialogue and there was just so much energy and life brought to these conversations when listened to that was somehow missing in the written word.
I felt the same way about Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Gabrielle Hamilton's cheffy memoir, Blood, Bones, & Butter, which I could not get into in paperbook, but have now listened to twice on audiobook.
So moral of the story is, when in doubt, try the audiobook!
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