Audiobooks — Not just for people who can’t read!

My name is Sally and I love audiobooks. Yeah, I said it! I’m not ashamed. You can all pretend you’re better than me, but you’re wrong. You just don’t get it.

Paper book readers who judge me have this fantasy in their mind: I’m standing in B&N looking at a book and thinking, “Gee, this is too long. I am too lazy to read this. Moving my eyes across this page take too much effort.” Actually, this is not the case. I read paper books all the time. It’s a sad fact but not all paper books are made into audiobooks, so I’m stuck.

In reality, there are huge spans of my life when my eyes are occupied, but my mind is very very bored. Maybe I’m cleaning my apartment? Doing layouts? Playing Mrs. Pacman? When I turn the TV on in these situations, it always screams “look at me!” and that can get very annoying.

Now that I’ve listened to every episode of Joe Frank, every TAL and all the good Ted Talks, I’ve been scouring the internet for more audio stimulation. Of course I love my girly jams…but audiobooks have become my salvation

Last issue I listened to the incredible book, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. This is the best book I’ve read in years, and it convinced me to read and listen to more books! So, I also listened to Lovely Bones (sad), Freakonomics (good, but a little mean spirited) and Running With Scissors (disappointing). I tried listening to The Fortress of Solitude, but it was super boring. Boys seem to love this book, but I don’t know why.

Right now I am working on issue 9. I can’t wait for you guys to see it. It looks so awesome. Anyway, so far this issue I’ve listened to The Alchemist (it sucked, but it was free on iTunes), When You Are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris books are even better when he reads them), Snuff, The Pleasure of my Company and right now I’m listening to Middlesex (amazing).

This brings me to the second reason why audiobooks are better than paper books. Here’s a hint: it rhymes with Schmidt Shmorrent.