My hobby these days is trying to find good books to listen to. I look at book reviews from the NY Times, the Guardian, NPR and of course, Amazon, and my success rate, that is, the percent of books I start listening to that I actually finish, is about 80 per cent. I find if I don't actually pay for the book I am more likely to stop after an hour if I feel I don't like it. Life is too short and there are so many books.
Of course I feel a bit guilty, not finishing ( or even getting half way through) "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie or "Wolf Hall" by Hillary Mantel. They are universally acclaimed novels so I should like them, especially because they are Booker Prize winners, which I usually like. Sometimes I do go back to them, so, maybe, someday.
I just looked in my desk drawer at work and found Graham Greene's "Brighton Rock" (8 CD's) and Thomas H. Cook's "The Quest for Anna Klein" (10 CD's). I am now converting each set to an mp3 file to listen on my iPhone. These were obtained from my public library.
So I always have a couple of books readyl.
OK, off to pop disc 2 into my computer for conversion.
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