Virginia Evans

That's how she perceived Sybil's voice.

And so that experience of that even sort of gave me this thought about how when we read a book, is it more of a reader's imagination that brings the story into our minds?

Whereas with audio,

the voices and the inflections and the pauses and the emotion or lack thereof in their voices takes a little away from what the reader imagines and says, this is what it is.

This is how she sounds.

This is what she meant.

And I thought that was really fascinating because it wasn't the same in my mind as it was in the audio.

And so then I thought it just made me think about audio books in general, how it's a different experience.

It's a different way of receiving a story, not better or worse, just different, I think.

I think I'm going to pick two favorites.

I so enjoyed her relationship with Baesam, the customer service representative for the online DNA company.

It was a relationship I so enjoyed imagining.

know for all of its flaws and for all of its beauty i thought it's a relationship that starts off rocky and offensive and hurtful and destructive and then it becomes something beautiful i think i just enjoyed that and i enjoyed some of the humor of that and

I worked in online customer service for a retailer for a few years, and that experience of kind of having people either assume the relationship too much or sort of think you're a robot, either one, it's so strange to be on the receiving end of that.

So that was a relationship I enjoyed.

I also enjoyed how it showed this part of Sybil, this part of her life and character that I enjoyed showing.

I enjoyed that we could see that.

And then I think probably, you know, the book has so many storylines because each different corresponding partner brings up a different avenue of what's happened in her life or what's happening.

There's one part where,

where because of this online DNA company, she makes contact with someone that's connected to her through DNA.