Chrystal Layton
2 books read for LibriVox
- Fair warning, it's a slow, strange ride, knights jousting on repeat in old prose that takes some settling into. But if you let it work on you, Lancelot's divided heart and the whole doomed slide toward Camlann land with a sadness modern retellings rarely earn.
- You follow Jim Burden’s memory of Ántonia from a bleak Nebraska childhood into the complicated fullness of adult life, and the prairie slowly becomes a place of loss, work, and hard-won belonging. It’s quiet and sometimes melancholy, but Ántonia’s stubborn vitality gives the book its warmth.