Right out of the gate I was on the edge of my seat, leaning in listening to Donovan’s spectacular narration telling us about the lurking stranger wrapping a strap of leather around her neck in an attempt to strangle her. She so, so very vividly brought them to life!Īnd the skill of transforming these (sometimes brief) brushes with death into edge-of-your-seat and descriptively stunning storytelling was an absolute gift given to us by Maggie O’Farrell. She took O’Farrell’s already beautifully written words and changes them to a technicolour extravaganza! I found myself leaning forward into the car’s speakers just so I could get closer to her beautiful, passionate and enthusiastic voice reading some of these harrowing experiences. O’Farrell – we’re kindred spirits!), and at first being a little skeptical of seventeen of them? Maggie O’Farrell brilliantly brings those brushes to life and it’s Daisy Donovan that just slams this out of the park with her narration. Even though I found there were some similarities in our brushes with death (hello Ms.
Daisy Donovan is what elevated this one to beyond the 5-star rating! First of all, could you describe your brushes with death as eloquently as O’Farrell can? I know I could not. Or any other combinations of reasons for reading the print and/or listening to the audio.īut this audiobook? Oh my. I read this one the way I seem to be reading/listening to some books lately: I start out in audio and then switch to the paper copy – either I’m doing that because I’ve run out of time with the audiobook, or I didn’t like the narration or I felt I was missing out on something by listening and not seeing the words in front of me. But it was also an incredibly fantastic audiobook!
I Am I Am I Am is Maggie O’Farrell’s (fantastic) memoir of her seventeen brushes with death.
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