Nordic Track: 20', distance 2.54, calories (allegedly) 312
I don't count the one, half, half, and one mile walks the bus ride entails. I might count the morning mile, because my heart rate does rise, but I don't (yet) because it's piddling.
I really liked the narrator of The Human Stain, no one I had ever heard of named Arliss Howard (also Debra Winger). I am not so much enjoying the narration of American Pastoral--and why would Audible have two different narrators when both books are "by" Nathan Zuckerman? Especially since Nathan Zuckerman exists in The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
The reason I don't like this narrator is--well, one of them--why do people pronounce the g in words like "sing" and "thing" as much as they do the k in "sink" and think"? The velar nasal, ŋ, is a sound on its own, not a diagraph. It's [ng], not [ng-g]. Hmm. (The phoneme is represented in IPA as an n with a long, slightly hooked right leg, but both ŋ and ŋ might not display correctly.)
Today season 4 of "The West Wing" started on Bravo. I didn't like the character Bruno before, I think because of his personality. I haven't seen "West Wing" since I started listening to American Pastoral, but as soon as I heard his voice I knew. Ron Silver. Now I'm going to project Bruno's character onto everyone in American Pastoral, and the book doesn't need another strike against it.