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I just finished Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley, read by Nadia May. It was pleasant and short, rather slight. May does a credible Yankee accent. I'd probably have preferred to have read it as there really wasn't much to it; in any case, I wasn't as charmed as others are by this.
With some trepidation, I've finally womanned up and started Robert Caro's The Power Broker, read by Robertson Dean, all 66+ hours of it. This is another I'd rather read, for the exact opposite reason - Moses and I are going to be spending a lot of time together. But it's not available as an ebook and it's more than I want to heft, so listen I will. My strategy is two-fold: I've bumped the speed up to 1.25 times, so that should save me roughly 13 hours, and since it downloads in chunks, I'll observe the breaks and intersperse them with something else.
I like Dean's narration, except that my pet peeve is present here, too - he mispronounces some words. Only about 45 minutes in, and he's already got "Mosholu," "Van Wyck" and "Impelliteri" wrong. Why, why can't readers check on the pronunciation of proper names? But he got "Impelliteri" right the second time, so maybe someone is listening and giving him feedback. Fingers crossed.
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