Like the James Baldwin title, however, this one was been on my TBR in earnest. Maya Angelou is another name that kept coming up when I went looking for audiobooks to fall asleep to.
i know Why the Caged Bird Sings, written and narrated by Maya Angelou He has narrated dozens of books, from Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site to Evicted, but I’ve been meaning to read James Baldwin, so this one jumped out at me. This was a recommendation for a narrator, not a specific book: Dion Graham. Another Country by james baldwin, narrated by dion graham
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Specifically, I have been recommended anything narrated by Neil Gaiman, but especially The Graveyard Book. This one is also available as a full cast production, but I doubt that would be conducive to sleep. The Graveyard Book, Written and Narrated by Neil Gaiman I was listening to a sample of the audiobook just before typing this, and I swear I almost started to drift off right here. I don’t usually associate Voldemort with “soothing voices,” but Ralph Fiennes manages to bridge that gap. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, narrated by Ralph Fiennes Let me know in the comments if you have any more suggestions for soothing audiobooks! Alternatively, most audiobook players have a function where it will automatically pause after a certain amount of time, so you can listen to 10–30 minutes of the book to get in a sleepy mood, then drift off after it pauses. My fellow Book Rioters had a long list of suggestions of soothing audiobooks, so I thought I’d share them with you! If you are stressed about missing anything in the book, you can stick to books you’ve already read. What if I fell asleep to an audiobook instead? It feels a little bit sacrilegious, but I’m willing to push past that.
Of course, my mind went first to my solution for everything: is there a book that could help with this? I’ve often fallen asleep to podcasts. (Check out my article on Bookish ASMR if want an introduction.) Unfortunately, that means selecting a new video every night, and I’m running out of options. I tried ASMR as a joke, but now I’m dependent on those whispering videos to distract my brain just enough to fall asleep-without being interesting enough to demand my full attention. The problem with that is two-fold: one, it’s very hard to control every sound within earshot (and I never got the hang of sleeping with earplugs), and two, it left me alone with my own spinning thoughts. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.Īs with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.I used to have to fall asleep in absolute silence. Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape.
But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weeklyįrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
“A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” -Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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