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kimu 's review for:
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
This is the first time I've read this book, after viewing the BBC mini-series more times than I'm willing to admit to. Two special features of this reading experience:
1) A lovely audiobook reading by Juliet Stevenson - really one of the best audiobook readings I've ever heard. She made the material more accessible and did a fantastic job differentiating among characters in dialog-heavy sections.
2) Using amazon's new Whispersync between audible audiobooks and amazon kindle ebooks. I mainly listen to audiobooks while riding a bus, which happens on most work days. Being able to listen to the book some of the time and read it at other times really improved my overall experience of the book. The audiobook version I listened to was 18+ hours long. That would have taken ages for me to get through in audiobook only format, with a good chance that I'd lose interest at some point. I really enjoyed the joint audiobook-ebook reading experience.
Overall, I'm ashamed that I haven't read this book before now. It's sort of a Dickensian-era romance novel, but with important historical political/socioeconomic context. Although perhaps I'm just telling myself the second half to make myself feel better about the first half. I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to others, especially fans of the BBC mini-series.
1) A lovely audiobook reading by Juliet Stevenson - really one of the best audiobook readings I've ever heard. She made the material more accessible and did a fantastic job differentiating among characters in dialog-heavy sections.
2) Using amazon's new Whispersync between audible audiobooks and amazon kindle ebooks. I mainly listen to audiobooks while riding a bus, which happens on most work days. Being able to listen to the book some of the time and read it at other times really improved my overall experience of the book. The audiobook version I listened to was 18+ hours long. That would have taken ages for me to get through in audiobook only format, with a good chance that I'd lose interest at some point. I really enjoyed the joint audiobook-ebook reading experience.
Overall, I'm ashamed that I haven't read this book before now. It's sort of a Dickensian-era romance novel, but with important historical political/socioeconomic context. Although perhaps I'm just telling myself the second half to make myself feel better about the first half. I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to others, especially fans of the BBC mini-series.