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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (6978)3/17/2014 11:18:27 PM
From: Old_Sparky  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9626
 
I find audiobooks a perfect accompaniment to quiet chores. I cleaned the barbi this weekend in preparation for the upcoming grilling season. A couple of hours of scraping/cleaning while listening to an audiobook makes the whole process more pleasant. Working in the basement drywalling /tapimg/painting is another job suited to listening to books. It is a quiet introspective activity. Woodworking, using lnoisy electric tools, even if only for a few minutes, is too distracting and you quickly lose the continuity required in listening.
However lying back in a chair and just closing your eyes to listen....makes me fall asleep.
Listening to books on long car drives would be perfect, but it is not something I do. Long drives that is.



To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (6978)3/17/2014 11:19:19 PM
From: Stan  Respond to of 9626
 
under the spell of a good reader.

I've been trying to improve my speaking skills, partly by paying more attention to good readers and narrators because when I listen to a recording of myself reading, I doubt I'd put anyone under a spell, I'm more liable to put them to sleep.


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