After years of running, I have made peace with the fact that my knees are shot and am resigned to walking as my exercise of choice. This idea used to cause me emotional grief, until I discovered audio books. Walking has since become almost a guilty pleasure.
If you are an audio book listener, you know what I mean. There are days, when I am engrossed in a story, that I don't want to stop walking. I'll walk in 94 degree heat, I'll walk in the rain. Not only that, but I now even look forward to cleaning my house, going on a road trip (with kids!), or weeding in my yard. Listening to audio books is the ultimate adventure in multi-tasking!
Even though I've only been listening to audio books for about three years, I've run through a few as I always have the iPod on my hip. Here is my list of audios that have rocked my world...each one has been a thrilling experience:
All Harry Potters! (I doubt you need a review of these...)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (review coming out next Tuesday)
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
Everyone is Beautiful - Katherine Center
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Annie Barrows/Mary Ann Shaffer
Tell No One - Harlan Coban
Testimony - Anita Shreve
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Likeness - Tana French
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
From my pre-blogging days:
World Without End - Ken Follett
Atomic Lobster - Jim Dorsey
The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
If you are an audio book listener, you know what I mean. There are days, when I am engrossed in a story, that I don't want to stop walking. I'll walk in 94 degree heat, I'll walk in the rain. Not only that, but I now even look forward to cleaning my house, going on a road trip (with kids!), or weeding in my yard. Listening to audio books is the ultimate adventure in multi-tasking!
Even though I've only been listening to audio books for about three years, I've run through a few as I always have the iPod on my hip. Here is my list of audios that have rocked my world...each one has been a thrilling experience:
All Harry Potters! (I doubt you need a review of these...)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (review coming out next Tuesday)
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
Everyone is Beautiful - Katherine Center
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Annie Barrows/Mary Ann Shaffer
Tell No One - Harlan Coban
Testimony - Anita Shreve
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Likeness - Tana French
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
From my pre-blogging days:
World Without End - Ken Follett
Atomic Lobster - Jim Dorsey
The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child
The Hard Way - Lee Child
Nothing to Lose - Lee Child
The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
The Chicago Way - Michael Harvey
Friend of the Devil - Peter Robinson
All the Flowers Are Dying - Lawrence Block
Hope to Die - Lawrence Block
Sum of our Days - Isabel Allende
Lush Life - Richard Price
Careless in Red - Elizabeth George
Careless in Red - Elizabeth George
Love the One You're With - Emily Giffin
OK, I might have gotten carried away. You can tell where my obsessions lie! Anyway, if you are bored with walking, this might be the way to go! Good luck!
You've GOTTA Read This!
OK, I might have gotten carried away. You can tell where my obsessions lie! Anyway, if you are bored with walking, this might be the way to go! Good luck!
You've GOTTA Read This!
5 comments:
Great Pointers! I got a new knee last year and had to stop running also and hated walking (seemed to be not "as good" excercise to me), but I also have discovered the audiobooks... I can walk for hours with a good book :)
I might have to get on board with this especially since we can now get free downloads at the library for most books!
How do you get books onto an MP3 player?? I don't have an iPod (only one in the USA I think). I know the library has CDs and Tapes for audio books but...
I'd like to know where you get all your audiobooks? I'd love to get them on my ipod on my iphone but I don't want to pay a ton of money for them. Where are the free ones? Anyone know?
I just recently got my first audio book and decided to listen while on my treadmill. I get tired of watching tv or listening to music so this is a welcome change!!
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