WWW Wednesday 2-5-20

Currently I am listening to Naked Came the Florida Man by Tim Dorsey.  I found in my listening to audiobooks that I prefer humorous books and based on the description and review of this book, that was what I was going to get.  Funny so far, yeah, I’m just having a problem with the guy reading the book.  His voice changes for each character which I find to be distracting and I find his voice acting makes what he is saying difficult to understand.  Hopefully it gets better!

I am also reading The Witch Elm by Tana Fench.  This was a gift to me from my bestie with rave reviews.  I’m almost done, and I have to say the book is very mysterious and exciting.  Definitely a page turner and I can’t wait to read how it ends!

The last book I read was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgentsern.  I was so excited to read this book – the only book I asked for at Christmas.  Gosh, I was so disappointed in this book.  For one, it took me FOREVER to finish.  Every time I tried to read it, it put me to sleep.  It felt like the first half of the book were all unrelated separate chapters.  Well written and dreamy (literally) but it took forever for the story to unfold and make sense.  So bummed with the book, but glad it is over.

I listened to The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man by W. Bruce Cameron, another book meeting my humor check.  And boy, this was a funny and still exciting book to listen to.  The story had a All of Me (the movie with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin) feel to it in that one of the main characters resided in the main characters brain.  And if you are going to write that story and have it be believable, you got to do it right.  Thankfully, I feel Cameron did.  Really enjoyable.

Since The Starless Sea took forever and a day for me to get through, I moved through my audiobooks pretty quickly.  When I first decided I wanted to listen to humorous books, I chose Straight Man by Richard Russo.  The prologue alone in this book had me laughing out loud.  This book is dry humor at its finest and has also landed itself on the list of books I want to pick up and read since there were so many funny details.  Great book!

Before that I read Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven.  I enjoyed the book which was about a girl once labeled the world’s fattest teen, her return to school after losing hundreds of pounds, yet still obese and her relationship with a boy who silently suffers from prosopagnosia – the inability to recognize people’s faces.  Good story, interesting characters, enjoyable read.

I listened to Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson.  I chose this book on its great reviews, although I didn’t really know anything about it except the main plot – when two kids get upset, they are able to set themselves on fire.  This book was so funny, lighting the path for all future audiobooks in the humor category, and well done.  Because again, if you are going to write such an outlandish story, you got to do right.  Fun, enjoyable story!

And finally, the last book I listened to before that was Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane.  I really enjoyed this somber story, but I think I would have preferred to read this book instead of listening to it.  From Goodreads: A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.