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@joeharlowe.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:55 AM

#reading #listening #arundhatiroy #mothermarycomestome #memoir #music

The cover image for an audiobook version of Mother Mary Comes To Me, by Arundhati Roy. An image of a woman smoking a cigarette, staring into the middle distance. Is it an image of the author? Her mother? Someone else? I am unsure. I suppose I could find out, but it also seems unimportant, somehow. The voice, though- that is important. The author reads it, and I am entranced. Her voice is not exactly warm, but it is rich and sonorous, and the music of it enraptures me. I read The God of Small Things a long time ago, and I remember loving it, but truth be told I can't remember any details of it. Even when I go back to it after listening to this memoir and start it over, I can't recall any of it. But, once again, I love it, and all the more so now that I hear it in the author's own voice, after listening to her. I read slowly now, at the pace of her speech, and it is far slower than my usual reading speed, but I hear the melodies and the rhythms of the sentences now; I hear them sing.

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