One thing for which I'm discovering a new-found appreciation is audiobooks. Since I commute by train, and wear my ipod at the gym, and wash dishes with the headset on, I'm learning that that time adds up to a whole lot of book listening that can be going on. So far I've made my way through Obama's narrations of his own two books (albeit abridged) and right now I'm listening to Jeremy Irons' recording of The Alchemist, which I'm liking a whole lot more than I expected to.
The plus is that - if the reader is good, and both Obama and Irons are not surprisingly fantastic - I can "read" books like I haven't been able to read them before and really want to pay attention in a way that's been difficult with parenthood. The negative is that the eye reads a whole lot faster than the voice, so that for a very large book, for example Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, the total running time is a prohibitive 38 or so hours of listening time. The then-positive is that that is probably a book that I will NEVER read if I try to make my way through the hard copy. So I might just give it a shot by audio after all.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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