Re: Summer Reading

[Cheryl Bybee <cbybee@TENET.EDU>]

Barbara Weidner wrote about audiobooks and I have to second that motion!
I had never had any real interest in listening to books...a mindset
thing, I think.  Besides, I love to listen to music and usually do that
in the car.  However, about a year ago I had an audiotape of Maclachlan's
book *Baby* as a review item.  So...driving the almost two hours from
home to Austin to visit my son at the Univ. of Tx., I slipped the tape
in.  I was enthralled...loved the story, loved the production and it was
exactly right in terms of time...2 hours up, 2 hours back.  Since then
I've gotten several more books on tape and find that on long drives it
can be very refreshing.  I recently listened to Doctorow's *Waterworks*
read by Sam Waterston.....marvelous.  Took care of my Spring Break
travels quite well.

I just needed a bit of a paradigm shift.

Cheryl

Cheryl Bybee, Director of Library Services -- Northside ISD
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