Reading Aloud

I’m in the middle of four days of reading The New Christians aloud for Audible.com.  (Yes, I’m just as surprised as you are that they’re interested in my book.)  And, I’ve got to say, it’s one of the hardest things that I’ve ever done.  I’m not kidding.

I sit in a small closet with a book in my lap and an exorbitantly expensive microphone hanging over my head.  And I read.  And Ameen (owner of Mothlab) stops me.

He stops me if I go too fast or too slow, if I read too loudly or too quietly.  He stops me if my stomach growls or my pants swish together.  Or — and this is the main reason — if I get a word wrong or if there’s a hitch in my voice or anything like that.

I was there for six hours yesterday, and we got to page 51.  We’re averaging about 10 pages per hour.

As Anthony Smith would say, “Pray for a brutha.”