In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

"It is a devastating story. It’s a memoir of her marriage and the death of her husband by assisted suicide. Listening to the audio version embodies why author memoirs are so popular and so powerful as audiobooks. You hear her telling this story. It’s an intensely personal story. She’s a professional in the way that she holds herself together as she tells this story, but as the listener, you hear—she can’t help but have in her voice—the emotion and the many feelings that she had as she went through this incredible experience with her husband. Memoirs can sometimes be fun and funny, but always with an author memoir, that deep emotional piece is in their voice, whether they know it or not, or whether they try to hide it or not. It’s there, and we hear it. The effectiveness of that connection with us is one of the brilliant things about listening to an audiobook memoir. Yes, and how she supports him, despite all the conflicting emotions that she goes through. It was a great marriage. She has a great devotion to him. This was something she wanted to support him in but it’s about how incredibly difficult it was. It’s amazing that she could write this book. And then that she could record it as well. It’s a brilliant piece. Before listening to it, I thought, ‘Do I really want to listen to this?’ but it had excellent reviews. I was entranced by the way she tells the story. She pulls no punches, that honesty in the memoir, and in her voice, was very compelling, as hard as it was—and it was a whole lot harder on her, of course, than it was on us listening to it. It’s amazing. So that’s a sad one, but there are lots of different kinds of choices on our best-of-the-year list. Right. And sometimes it’s hard to discover which audiobooks you might want to listen to. Curating five is a nice start. Also, for each of the 50+ audiobooks on our best-of-the-year list, we have sound clips you can try out . There are also several podcast episodes with the narrators. Coming up, we have Lake Bell talking to us about Inside Voice and Robin Miles talking about You Don’t Know Us Negroes . So you can listen to the audiobook clip or you could listen to a little bit of a conversation with the narrators talking about the books, which is fun. That’s two ways that you can discover what’s interesting in an audiobook before you make your choice."