audible

the eyes being of a certain age, it’s far easier to listen to a book being read for half an hour each night. I’ve just finished the joyously eccentric my Family and Other animals, and thought I might start Hamnet, which got mistaken for Hamlet – why not I thought I but as soon as the american voices started I was wide awake fretting. sometimes american accents are lovely, but somehow, reading Shakespeare, they are not. Sorry chums. Other books I’ve heard recently were Pride and Prejudice, A christmas Carol, The Invisible Man, War of the worlds, and several others that I have forgotten. what next?