Gord Mackenzie

4 books read for LibriVox

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini
André-Louis is a cynical young lawyer who hides from his enemies by joining a traveling theater troupe, then picks up a sword out of pure spite. It's revenge and revolution with a wink, and the fencing scenes are better than they have any right to be.
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
You can read it in an afternoon and laugh out loud the whole way; Algernon inventing a sickly friend named Bunbury to dodge dinner parties, Lady Bracknell interrogating a suitor about his handbag. Nothing serious happens, which is exactly the point, and the wordplay still lands.
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau can be smug about his beans, sure, but then he'll spend a whole page chasing a loon across the pond and you forgive him everything. Read it slowly, a chapter at a time, when your own life feels too cluttered and loud.

4 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini
André-Louis is a cynical young lawyer who hides from his enemies by joining a traveling theater troupe, then picks up a sword out of pure spite. It's revenge and revolution with a wink, and the fencing scenes are better than they have any right to be.
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
You can read it in an afternoon and laugh out loud the whole way; Algernon inventing a sickly friend named Bunbury to dodge dinner parties, Lady Bracknell interrogating a suitor about his handbag. Nothing serious happens, which is exactly the point, and the wordplay still lands.
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau can be smug about his beans, sure, but then he'll spend a whole page chasing a loon across the pond and you forgive him everything. Read it slowly, a chapter at a time, when your own life feels too cluttered and loud.