James is on my list - daughter wants to read Huck Finn before she tackles James. I’ll tell her you agree. I’m reading The Wedding People because we have a few moms in our Book Club planning weddings for this summer. Starts out a little intense, but the writing is good and the ideas interesting. Now thanks to you I need to add Anna Karenina (maybe listen). Daughter loved that one!
How’s The Wedding People?! Yes, James is superb / esp by audiobook. Anna Karenina was automatically returned bc I didn’t finish in two weeks - twenty hours down but thirteen to go! Let’s hope I still remember what’s going on when it comes back round to me…hopefully soon.
Ok, help me enter my audiobook era? I want to do more with audiobooks, but I just haven't figured out how they fit into my day? I love them for long road trips, when I'm already sitting there in the car, but when do you find you're most listening to audiobooks and what are you doing while you listen? (Maybe that's my problem. With an audiobook I always feel like I have to be DOING something.)
I never sit down and just listen either. I mostly listen in the car, but also when I’m doing mindless chores like emptying the dishwasher, doing my hair, or walking dogs - and even in the shower if I’m really into the story! I can’t listen to them while doing something that requires making decisions - like bills or even organizing my desk; that’s too stressful. I also listen on 1.25 or 1.5 bc some of the narrators are a little slow. But I’m not going for 2x the speed bc that feels like I’m just trying to get through the book and reading should be pleasurable, in my opinion. I’m listening to Anna Karenina right now and it’s 33 hours! So it’s little bits of time that really add up…it used to not be my thing either, but sometimes the audiobook is so fun - like when Tom Hanks or Meryl Streep is the narrator. Or the narrator who did JAMES - just wow! If any of that is helpful…:)
James is on my list - daughter wants to read Huck Finn before she tackles James. I’ll tell her you agree. I’m reading The Wedding People because we have a few moms in our Book Club planning weddings for this summer. Starts out a little intense, but the writing is good and the ideas interesting. Now thanks to you I need to add Anna Karenina (maybe listen). Daughter loved that one!
How’s The Wedding People?! Yes, James is superb / esp by audiobook. Anna Karenina was automatically returned bc I didn’t finish in two weeks - twenty hours down but thirteen to go! Let’s hope I still remember what’s going on when it comes back round to me…hopefully soon.
Ok, help me enter my audiobook era? I want to do more with audiobooks, but I just haven't figured out how they fit into my day? I love them for long road trips, when I'm already sitting there in the car, but when do you find you're most listening to audiobooks and what are you doing while you listen? (Maybe that's my problem. With an audiobook I always feel like I have to be DOING something.)
I never sit down and just listen either. I mostly listen in the car, but also when I’m doing mindless chores like emptying the dishwasher, doing my hair, or walking dogs - and even in the shower if I’m really into the story! I can’t listen to them while doing something that requires making decisions - like bills or even organizing my desk; that’s too stressful. I also listen on 1.25 or 1.5 bc some of the narrators are a little slow. But I’m not going for 2x the speed bc that feels like I’m just trying to get through the book and reading should be pleasurable, in my opinion. I’m listening to Anna Karenina right now and it’s 33 hours! So it’s little bits of time that really add up…it used to not be my thing either, but sometimes the audiobook is so fun - like when Tom Hanks or Meryl Streep is the narrator. Or the narrator who did JAMES - just wow! If any of that is helpful…:)