The arcade bleeps in the background—chiptune soundtrack bleeding through worn speakers. Here’s what the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow audiobook is really like. You can almost feel the curve of the controller in your palm, the give of the buttons…
I came to the Deep Work audiobook the way most of us come to Cal Newport: mid-scroll, vaguely guilty, wondering where my afternoon went. Listening to a book about focus while I was chronically unfocused felt almost like a dare.…
Some memoirs are good on the page and transcendent in your ears, and Born a Crime is the rare book that belongs in the second category. This is the Born a Crime audiobook, from one listener to another. Here Trevor…
I put off Beach Read for ages because the cover and the title had me expecting something breezy and forgettable, the kind of thing you half-listen to while doing laundry. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the Beach Read audiobook, then.…
Some books feel like a warm room you never want to leave, and for me the audiobook of A Gentleman in Moscow was exactly that. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the A Gentleman in Moscow audiobook. I pressed play…
Every so often a romance comes along that feels less like reading and more like moving into a town you never want to leave. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Things We Never Got Over audiobook. That’s exactly what…
I put off Ugly Love for years because everyone warned me it would wreck me, and reader, they were not exaggerating. This is the Ugly Love audiobook, from one listener to another. I finally caved and chose the audiobook, and…
Few science fiction novels of the last decade arrive with as much weight behind them as The Three-Body Problem — a Hugo winner, a Netflix adaptation, and the book readers keep pressing into each other’s hands. A few spoiler-free thoughts…
Some books wreck you gently, and this is one of them. Settle in for my take on the They Both Die at the End audiobook. I pressed play on They Both Die at the End expecting a quick, tidy listen…
How enormous can a single story grow before it buckles under its own weight? Let me walk you through the Way of Kings audiobook. Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings answers by raising a whole storm-battered world of warring princes…