About two years ago, I received a brain injury, and lost my ability to read. At first I couldn't even read full sentences, then I could read a few sentences, but anything longer, and all the words would be sort of mushed up and illegible, later on I could read a series of short paragraphs. Over the course of the past few months, a friend helped me be able to finally read full pages, and now novels again.
I struggle a little still, but I just love reading so much, that I keep going back to the library to check out books and try my hardest to work my way through the engrossing stories.
On the advice of a friend, I checked out Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, by Tad Williams. It's an incredible fantasy story that takes place on the trenches of WW1. Very realistic, and sad, and beautiful.
I was struggling with it a little, as I'm just starting to read novels again. That's when I discovered online, that the author, Tad Williams, read his entire book aloud on YouTube! So I am currently reading the book, while the author reads it aloud to me in my earbuds. It's an incredible experience. It reminds me of when my daughter was little and I read the entire Narnia saga to her aloud.
I wish I could find a way to thank that friend for all they did for me. But I guess I'll just have to pay it forward to others. If you have trouble reading, or if you just want to hear a great work of American fiction read to you, here are the videos of Tad reading the book aloud:
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
The first fifteen or so minutes of each video, he's just talking about the book, or random things in his life, but if you fast forward past all that, you can get to the story.
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If you are interested in listening to more stories that Tad Williams wrote, here is the page on YouTube that has all of them.
He's read aloud at least ten of his novels. So check out the book from the library (or the ebook) and then read along with him.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyi4OpgbI4d1TCAKqp-5boQ/videos
I struggle a little still, but I just love reading so much, that I keep going back to the library to check out books and try my hardest to work my way through the engrossing stories.
On the advice of a friend, I checked out Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, by Tad Williams. It's an incredible fantasy story that takes place on the trenches of WW1. Very realistic, and sad, and beautiful.
I was struggling with it a little, as I'm just starting to read novels again. That's when I discovered online, that the author, Tad Williams, read his entire book aloud on YouTube! So I am currently reading the book, while the author reads it aloud to me in my earbuds. It's an incredible experience. It reminds me of when my daughter was little and I read the entire Narnia saga to her aloud.
I wish I could find a way to thank that friend for all they did for me. But I guess I'll just have to pay it forward to others. If you have trouble reading, or if you just want to hear a great work of American fiction read to you, here are the videos of Tad reading the book aloud:
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
The first fifteen or so minutes of each video, he's just talking about the book, or random things in his life, but if you fast forward past all that, you can get to the story.
********
If you are interested in listening to more stories that Tad Williams wrote, here is the page on YouTube that has all of them.
He's read aloud at least ten of his novels. So check out the book from the library (or the ebook) and then read along with him.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyi4OpgbI4d1TCAKqp-5boQ/videos
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