The Places You Will Go

How to "Read" Safely While on the Road

Yesterday, I started listening to Little Women while driving. I can't think why I never did this on those long drives to the office, before I moved, and each one-way trip took me 45 minutes. I have the cassette version (12 tapes) of the edition in the pic (left) - I chose it because I could not find a CD version at the time I was looking (someone was offering to buy me an audio book as a gift and I really wanted Little Women).

Just as well since my car does not have a CD player. However, audio books in CD format make more sense as they last longer. (Audio books are the perfect answer to Klang Valley traffic jams so maybe I should invest in a player for the car.)

I am loving Little Women, read beautifully by Sandra Burr, who does amazing things with her voice - it sounds like there's a whole cast performing the different parts.

I wish I had Good Wives too, but a convincing reading of Jo's rejection of Laurie just might be too hard to bear.

A Sendak Feast

I've been gorging on Maurice Sendak ... never a bad thing.

Got an audiobook of a collection of his stories read by Tammy Grimes, an American stage actress and have been listening to it (repeatedly) in the car. I love the way Grimes reads the stories - she's made Sendak even better and he was already the best!

And then my friend, Hsian, bought me a collection of animated film adaptations of Sendak's books and it's on right now as I type this.