All this talk about audiobooks (and quilting while you listen to'em) is making me curious and want to try listening ... what are you all reading/listening to? Where do you get'em?
I listen to either sweet, sweet silence or the tv while I quilt (or sometimes, the kids arguing) ... and it's getting old and it's not conducive to getting much done.
Any suggestions?? TIA!! :)
Hit your public library! There are titles by the dozens and dozens! Lots of the classics.... lots of all kinds of things!
Many on cassette... more and more on CD ROM.
I used to listen while I walked the dog.
I went on iTunes and looked up keyword "quilt" (obsess much, eh?) and found oodles for Jennifer Chiaverini ... anyone like her books? Are they really sappy? Or are they, as they seem, more like "Fried Green Tomatoes?"
Also, found Earlene Fowler's "Tumbling Blocks" -- loved her books years ago and I think I'll get this one!! I have to hit my local bookstore (again) and see if she's got any more out!!
Kate, my big thing is really wanting to preview it (which, I don't know if my PL allows -- do they as a rule???) ... if I'm going to listen to someone talking for 8 hours, I want to make sure that the voice isn't grating or annoying. Or that the reading isn't monotone. I've NEVER done an audiobook ... do you enjoy them? Are they worth the $$? Or would you, at the end of the day, have prefered to read?
I have read all of Jennifer Chiaverini's books, never listened to her, and they are not terribly sappy. There are two flavors of them, the modern day stories of the quilt school at Elm Creek Manor, and historical novels based on the family of Sylvia Compton, the owner of Elm Creek. My only complaint is that sometimes they spend a little too much time hashing over the events of the past that have been covered in other books, but it is a minor quibble. They are very good. As far as audiobooks go, I am an unabridged book snob, especially like Recorded Books, and Barbara Rosenblat is a wonderful narrator. I don't listen to many these days as I used to listen while I walked my dogs, and living here out in the country, I have to pay more attention than I did in Florida where I had sidewalks to walk on. I tried to listen while I was sewing, but found I need to pay more attention to the quilting, and music works better for me.
Heidi
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