Christie Nowak

3 books read for LibriVox

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Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
Beatrice and Benedick spend the whole play insulting each other so cleverly you'll want to read their scenes twice, and watching their friends trick them into admitting the obvious is pure pleasure. There's a nasty turn with Hero midway, but the comedy earns its way back.
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hell is the fun part, honestly: Dante keeps fainting, Virgil keeps steadying him, and old enemies get named and shamed in the ice. It asks patience (Paradiso gets very abstract), but as a walk through one man's whole moral universe, nothing else feels like it.
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare
You get Viola’s clever, tender balancing act, Malvolio’s wonderfully sour self-importance, and a comedy that keeps slipping between farce and real loneliness. The mistaken identities can feel deliberately tangled, but the language is playful enough to reward reading aloud, especially when the characters are trying hardest to hide what they want.

3 books read for LibriVox

filter sort era audiobooks

Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
Beatrice and Benedick spend the whole play insulting each other so cleverly you'll want to read their scenes twice, and watching their friends trick them into admitting the obvious is pure pleasure. There's a nasty turn with Hero midway, but the comedy earns its way back.
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hell is the fun part, honestly: Dante keeps fainting, Virgil keeps steadying him, and old enemies get named and shamed in the ice. It asks patience (Paradiso gets very abstract), but as a walk through one man's whole moral universe, nothing else feels like it.
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare
You get Viola’s clever, tender balancing act, Malvolio’s wonderfully sour self-importance, and a comedy that keeps slipping between farce and real loneliness. The mistaken identities can feel deliberately tangled, but the language is playful enough to reward reading aloud, especially when the characters are trying hardest to hide what they want.