I started to listen to a new audiobook today (well, new for me!), and I can tell this one will be good. I'm listening to This Year It Will be Different by Maeve Binchy. I have read several of her books in the past and have a long list I'd like to get through this year. I think Maeve's writing particularly lends itself to the audio format. She's such a great storyteller, and you almost feel like a little kid sitting on the rug in the library listening to one of the librarians read you a wonderful book.
This particular book is a collection of short stories, which typically I don't gravitate towards. Yet there are two authors who do them really well: Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher. Maeve is from Ireland (and typically writes her stories based in Ireland), and Rosamunde, I believe, is Scottish. Both of them have longer books as well, and they are definite treasures. My favorite thus far from Maeve was the first one I read: Tara Road. Rosamunde had several really good ones, but I would have to go with Coming Home as my favorite. I even enjoyed the movies that were based on the book (Coming Home and Nancherrow). Of course, they were nothing to the books, but the scenery was beautiful in both of them, and they brought back good memories of the books.
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