As I have mentioned before, I love audible.com. I used to never read books. I enjoy reading, but I usually feel like I'm not being productive just sitting there moving my eyeballs- almost like TV but not nearly as bad. When I discovered that for $15 (or $7.50 if they're having a deal) I could get any book I want on my ipod, I thought it was a perfect solution. Hopefully now I won't be an idiot my whole life. I listen to books while I drive, paint, run, do the dishes, clean or whatever. I've gone from reading maybe one book since high school to having read 13 books in the past year including:Freakonomics, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Mere Christianity, The World is Flat, Guns Germs and Steel, Collapse, Blink, Angels and Demons, 1776, A Walk in the Woods, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Screwtape letters, and I'm in the middle of 60 hours of Les Miserable, and I have Wicked waiting for me when I finish that.
I am a big fan of C.S. Lewis and Bill Bryson. So if anyone has some good book recommendations, I'm always looking for new books to check out.
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Maybe you should give a shout out to the person who introduced you to audible.com.
Yeah KATY!!
Les Miserables and Screwtape are in my top 5 books ever. I read them the onld fashioned way. I also recommend The Giver, The Cay, and maybe even Enders game.
Wow I'll have to check that site out. Now I won't be intimidated by a book thats thicker then my front door.
I listened to Into Thin Air by Krakeur (sp?) a few years ago. It's nonfiction about climbing Mt. Everest. Fascinating.
Wait, wasn't I the one who introduced you? Or did we discover it at the same time. I'm going to look in my email archives.
Upon closer review, you introduced me. So, I guess that means I was wrong...it had to happen sometime.
I love gmail archives.
Ok, I've recommended this a couple times before but here are a few more of my recent and old time favorites:
The Namesake
Interpretor of Maladies (Short Stories)- Both by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Road -Cormac McCarthy (HORRIFYING but well Worth reading)
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines by Gail Collins (I listened to this one on Audible and it has a really good reader)
Gilead -Marilynne Robinson
The Omnivore's Dilemna-Michael Pollan
Collapse -Jared Diamond
Watership Down -Richard Adams("It's about bunnies" -Sawyer in Lost)
Anything by Willa Cather
That's off the top of my head. Hope Les Miserables is going as well or miserabley as hoped. I just re-read it myself. If you are liking it, you might like Zola who is similar but a little more brutal.
Oh, and if you like Bill Bryson, check out Tony Horwitz. He is HILARIOUS.
Confederates in the Attic is my personal favorite, having grown up in SC. I laughed so hard I had to lay down. Blue Lattitude is great too. (both are on Audible)
How did you like 1776? I'm reading it for my book club and I'm having a hard time getting past page 10. Does it get better?
yeah, I thought it got more interesting when they would talk about the different battles and the character of George Washington. Some parts were a little slow, but overall I felt like I learned a lot more about the revolution.
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