Texts from Jane Eyre

For those who wonder how famous literary characters would text each other, author Mallory Ortberg and narrators Zach Villa and Amy Landon address that curiosity with their fanciful conceit. From Lord Byron to Nancy Drew, Villa and Landon deliver textual banter, bringing out the humorous and the ludicrous in every exchange. What listeners lose in emoticons and acronyms, they gain in verbal irony and other vocal techniques the narrators employ in their performance. While some of the conversations are a little stilted because of their brevity, they're short enough that the book never lags. For literati who like their fiction tongue in cheek, this one will have you ROTFL. C.A. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine