truepenny | Review: Vowell, Assassination Vacation (Reply)

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

[audiobook]
[library]

This is the first time I've finished an audiobook and gone back to the beginning to listen to it again. I loved this book. It hits my historical true crime buttons; it's also well-written and thoughtful. Vowell is always studying her own project and its implications even as she's tracking down obscure sites with connections to the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. Also, I appreciate her sense of humor and the way she owns her own morbid geekery.

Vowell is the reader for the audiobook (with guest appearances by a wide and surprising variety of people), and once I got used to her voice and her timing, I became entirely on board with that choice. This is also the first time where the experience of listening to the audiobook has not been a second-best to reading the book on paper (although I am going to look for a paper copy as well).

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