This is the BEST recording of A Christmas Carol. Tim Curry is beyond brilliant.

Note, we didn't have anything to do with the production of this book (much as I would love to be able to say we did). :)

If you have an Audible membership, grab this audiobook!

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It's not just common sense; it is environmentally responsible. It's bad enough that everything we buy has built-in obsolescence, forcing us to replace items every 1 to 5 years. Even houses are not built to last. The result of 100 years of planned obsolescence.

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"...unheard-of importance. Certain Narrators will be sought out for their fine address, their contagious sympathy, their thrilling warmth, & the perfect accuracy, the fine punctuation of their voice."

Ain't that the truth!

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the Book" (Scribner's Magazine, 1894):

"Men of letters will not be called Writers in the time soon to be, but rather, Narrators. Little by little the taste for style and for pompously decorated phrases will die away, but the art of utterance will take on ..."

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"So maybe, even as the traditional way of reading books is in decline, the destigmatizing of audiobooks offers a path toward a more nuanced way of thinking about literacy."

My thinking, too!

Neither Brian Bannon nor I are original.

Inspired by Edison's gramophone, Octave Uzanne wrote "The End of

Her conversations are a problem
Dems should focus on but Tom Homan accepting a $50K cash bribe from undercover FBI agents isn’t a problem the GOP should focus on?

I finally tried audiobooks, listening while commuting, walking, cleaning, cooking... Audiobooks gave me time for books again. I found that I was retaining as much (or more), and that it was easier to remember the author's name & the title of the book, something I sometimes struggled with.

I started listening to audiobooks when my son was little. My mom and mother-in-law were both aging & requiring a lot of care. I had a full-time job. I read to my son for at least an hour/day, but when I tried to read a book (usually nonfiction), I was asleep in 2 or 3 sentences. Starved for books,

I'm in publishing, so I need to know the stats. :)

While some get more from books, that's not true for everyone. I went from being a snob to an ardent fan of audiobooks because they seem to work for my brain. My hubby, also a big reader, narrates, but doesn't listen.

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Avoiding #Amazon? We are experimenting with Soundwise as a way to sell directly to listeners. Check it out!

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