Ross Gay’s earlier books, The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy, have established him as a author of extremely crafted essayettes on delight—that the majority elusive however completely important human emotion. The audiobook of The Book of (More) Delights (7 hours) confirms Gay’s capacity to find delight even when it’s hidden in sorrow, anger or tedium.
Gay is an award-winning poet, and consequently he understands the ability not solely of phrases and imagery, however of punctuation, construction and, particularly, sound. His cautious studying offers pauses their due, releases the rhythm and rhyme that prose so usually hides, and subtly emphasizes descriptions of a beloved nana, flower or good friend. There’s nothing pretentious about his studying; as an alternative, it merely brims with the sincere pleasure of acknowledging life’s sudden joys. And nothing is assured to create extra enjoyment of a listener’s day than listening to Gay gleefully repeat the phrases “vehicular vernacular”!
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