What are you reading the week of June 16, 2013?

[matt819]

5. Finishing up NOS4A2

I've been listening to NOS4A2 by Joe Hill.

I tried reading previous Joe Hill books, but couldn't get into them. I'm going to go back to them now.

This is a horror tour de force. Non-stop tension from start to finish. And, since this is an audio book, I have to mention the narrator, actress Kate Mulgrew. I'm not usually happy with actors who narrate books. It doesn't seem as if it should be this way, but there really is a different skill set between acting and narrating, and I think many actors don't make the transition well. (At the same time, not all narrators are particularly well suited, but they have established names for themselves as narrators nonetheless.) IN any case, Mulgrew is excellent, capturing the essence of Hill's characters.

Well worth the time.