I don’t love to read. Maybe it’s all the educational and informative self-help genera of books I have forced myself to read through, or all the college text books that still haunt me. It took me three years to read The Secret Life of Bees and that was a great book! It seems that I don’t have time to read. When I do find the time, I sit down to what I should read, not what is entertaining to read. I love a good story though, and have found a reading loophole.
I download audiobooks and put them on my ipod. It holds almost any book (or half of a Harry Potter book at a time). I can listen to audiobooks when I’m editing photos, cleaning the house, sitting in the airport, etc. I’ve been on this audiobook kick for a few years now, and I love it!
The Shack has been collecting dust in my bookshelf for months. I just look at it and feel the usual feeling of guilt for not reading wash over me… but no more. I will not feel guilty! I can be well read even if it comes in a non-conventional fashion. I have downloaded The Shack and have it in queue to be the next book I will “read”.
I know I don’t actually sit down and read novels but, trust me, I do read my share of books. This is a pile of non-audiobooks (I could find) that I am either currently reading, have read so far this year, or am planning to read in the near future.
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