In addition to reading blogs, I am reading a couple of books at home and listening to an audio book on the way to work. This is not an original idea, but books are very much like friends. For a given block of time they have your full attention. You are “listening” to the author’s thoughts, empathizing with characters, sharing another person’s life (whether real or imagined).
I may lack for friends in the real world, but I have a full life in my mind.
Filed under: Friendship, books
i LOVE audio books. i only have a cassette deck in the jeep… so i’m old school books on TAPE! right now i’m “reading” The Pinball Effect by James Burke. It’s a little more heady than my usual David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day is a must!) car reading but brilliant nonetheless…