The Pleasure of My Company (by Steve Martin)*

I loved listening to this as an Audiobook. It was like Steve Martin reading me a bedtime story. I love his prose; so delicate and subtle, and he has a real gift for simile. I love the story; so simple and charming. I love what he does with the semi-unreliable narrator. I don't know if its a realistic portrayal of an obsessive-compulsive person, but it felt plausible to me.

Strangely, I went and peeked at the pages of this book in the booksstore and found that it didn't evoke the same mood or feeling to me as it did when I listened to it. My experience of listening to a book is so different from my experience of reading it on the printed page.