Let’s talk about audio books.

Hello Guys and Dolls,

It’s been a while since I last wrote to you, in the space of a month, I feel as if I’ve lived a million lifetimes. We have been through a death, and multiple trips to the hospital for multiple people that we love and care about. I have also been ill again, but in these dark times, I always find it’s most important to focus on my loved ones and coming home to them at the end of the day.

On a lighter note – I have had very little time to read lately, what with work and writing and everything else going on. I just don’t know how to find the time to pick up a book, which is how I got back into audio books.

I haven’t listened to an audio book since I was about 10 years old. I was a vivacious reader as a child, and even when I desperately needed to go to sleep, I would stay up long past bedtime with a little lamp on at my bedside and read through book after book. I continued like this until my parents introduced audio books into my life, on CD and Cassette, so that I could listen to books well into my sleep and not feel like I was missing out on something.

As I grew older I found it harder to have any background noise whilst I was trying to sleep, so the audio books stopped and I began insomnia reading into my adulthood.

I usually find audio books really difficult to listen to as it’s not only about finding the right book, but the right voice too, and for so long I have struggled with that concept. But recently, whilst in the car or working, I have started to once again delve into the realms of audio books and I have loved the experience. I have gotten through more books in a week than I would usually get through in a month and I have been able to fully take in every word, every syllable and fall back into having my head in one story or another at all times.

It has been a transformative experience and has allowed me to actually focus on reading (or listening) for the first time in a long time when it had fallen into the background for me while writing took precedence.

It’s been pretty nice.

That’s all from me this month ladies and gents, feel free to check out the rest of my site and the links to Kismet AND my FREE short story over on my books page.

Thanks for reading,

Alie xo