A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings by Peggy Noonan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a daytime read. I find it hard to read politics at bedtime. So I listened to the audiobook borrowed from Libby while doing my diamond paintings. I thought the author read this, but Hillary Huber is listed as the narrator. Either way, these are interesting essays.
I have to admit that I didn’t agree with everything, but even when I didn’t, I found something interesting to learn in each one. I do like how Peggy Noonan writes these essays. I felt engaged in the topic, pro or con.
Darswords 
Do you ever read poetry, Dar? If so, I’d be interested in what you think of my newest book “If I Were Water and You Were Air” (Can’t italicize here so will set off with quotation marks) that I hope will come out within the month. If you have any interest I’ll send it to you by ebook or softcover. I understand if prose is your preference!
I do like poetry occasionally. I am so far behind on my TBR shelf. If you want to take a chance I’d like to try. I try to read with text to speech, though it might be easy to read in Kindle form without the it reading in robot voice. Congratulations on the book!
I am actually recording part of it as an audio..Meant to include it with the book but it may not be ready in time. It will be in ebook as well. Is that the easiest way to convert it to speech? Would you believe I read all my books, if possible, on Audible but I’ve never tried to listen via speech.
The Kindle Fire gives a choice of voices for text to speech. I choose the female British. It sounds like Mary Poppins is reading to me. But it is still a bit robotic. For books with in-general fiction, or boring no-non-English verbage nonfiction the voice works well. But I think it might reck poetry. I can try to read with my eyes, or wait for you to voice it for me. I think poetry calls for nuances a robot can’t interpret.