![]() ![]() I started a handful of things I just didn’t want to finish. I had a really hard time finding novels on audio this month to get excited about. It’s totally gripping: I couldn’t take my earbuds out. Mostly I remember singing “Defying Gravity” on a hike up Runyon Canyon, but I didn’t know about anything she talks about here, except maybe her love for Wicked. When I first moved to L.A., I hung out a few times with Kelly via a mutual friend. ![]() One scene, in which Kelly listens to a therapist’s advice and confronts her mother, is especially harrowing and moving. There’s a lot of tough stuff that Kelly handles with enormous grace both on the page and vocally - in particular a very complicated relationship with her late mother, a onetime stripper. Kelly, a former nurse who got her start on the television series Friday Night Lights, is so piercingly honest, you just want to reach out through Audible and give her a hug. But then a book like Kelly’s comes along. Though celebrity memoirs are a major silo in my life, I still bemoan there are too many of them. The goal of this column is to try to send you on your way each month with a few of them. I find that the best audiobooks are experiences in themselves. Sometimes an audiobook doesn’t work because of the narrator other times the book is overcomplicated and confusing. Over the years, I’ve learned that some books make satisfying listens and some just don’t. ![]() If I play Candy Crush while I’m listening to Pamela Anderson’s memoir, I’m accomplishing something, even if that accomplishment is absorbing Pamela Anderson’s memoir. You can go for a walk, drive to Florida, do laundry, put together a jigsaw puzzle, lie on your bed in complete and total despair. You can do lots of other things, all while enjoying one of the best books of the year. One of the great things about listening to audiobooks is you can. People will occasionally tell me they think listening to an audiobook is “cheating.” Cheating on what? Physical books? One of the great things about reading is you can’t do anything else while you’re reading. ![]()
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