Audiobook Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya in the ListenBook app
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Book description
March 12th
The audiobook's voice is so close, like Sarah whispering over coffee. You don't just read Bibliophobia; you lean into it, hearing the crack in her voice when she talks about high school in that Cleveland suburb, the way Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye didn't just tell her about being Japanese American-it shattered her. That's her "Life Ruiner," she calls it. Books that don't just comfort but annihilate you, leaving you raw.
I've been there. That moment when a line in a book hits harder than any conversation, when the world outside the pages suddenly feels like a bad fit. Sarah lived there, building her whole life around books-teaching literature at an Ivy League school, writing criticism. Until she wasn't. The hospital. The blank page. No more Anne of Green Gables. Just... silence. And the terrifying question: Can we ever rewrite the stories that govern us?
Listening to her trace that journey-through Possession, A Tale for the Time Being, even The Last Samurai-it's not just about books. It's about how they mirror our deepest wounds. She writes about depression like it's a shadow she's carried since childhood, and the audiobook makes that shadow feel real. You hear the dark humor when she talks about books "pushing back" on lovers, the way they demand you see yourself. And the way she describes her breakdown? It's not melodramatic. It's quiet. "The world became unreadable." You feel that.
What's brilliant is how she doesn't just talk about books. She uses them to untangle her life. When she writes about The Bluest Eye again, years later, it's not nostalgia-it's a reckoning. The audiobook's pacing does this so well. Long pauses after hard truths. A soft laugh when she admits she once thought books could save her from herself. You hear the relief in her voice when she finally asks: What if the story isn't the problem? What if we are?
It's not a tidy recovery. She doesn't "beat" bibliophobia. She learns to live with it. And listening to her navigate that-through the very books that once felt like lifelines-makes you realize: sometimes the stories that break us are the ones that teach us how to mend. Not with new words, but with the old ones, held a little differently.
I finished this audiobook late last night, the room dark. For the first time since I started listening, I didn't reach for a book. I just sat with the quiet. And for the first time in a long time, it didn't feel like a void. It felt like space. Space to breathe. Space to maybe, just maybe, rewrite my own story-one sentence at a time.
Sarah Chihaya didn't just write a memoir. She gave us a map for the messy, beautiful work of living with the stories we've been given. And the best part? It's a map you can carry in your ear, anytime you need to remember you're not alone in the silence.
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