Linda Leu
2 books read for LibriVox
- Essays non-fictionEmerson works best read slowly, a paragraph at a time, because he's constantly nudging you to trust your own mind. Self-Reliance alone will have you underlining half the pages.
- You hear the dead of Spoon River speak from their graves, each brief epitaph exposing the grudges, compromises, lusts, and private tenderness their neighbors never saw. The voices contradict one another, so the town slowly becomes a messy human chorus rather than a neat moral lesson.