I really enjoy books on tape and CD. Even though my little car is a 2004, it still has a tape deck which is good because most of the recorded books at libraries are still on tape. I guess the CD's cost too much. Anyway, right now I have a Danielle Steele book on CD, called Sisters. I'm about 6 chapters in right now and it is classic Danielle Steele - way too much drama and nothing every really happens. I swear the first 4 chapters all said the same thing, only in slightly different words. Anyway, the drama in this one made me cry. It's slightly odd to be crying in your car for anyone to see. People probably thought I recently lost a loved one, or was in a fight with my significant other, or some other sad event. Nope. Just listening to whomever is reading the book to me describe in his soothing, yet oddly monotone voice the carnage and wreckage that killed a beloved mother and sent a promising young woman (one of the aforementioned Sisters) to the ER fighting for her life. It's a good thing my windows are always rolled up this time of year.

I've listened to a lot of books on tape/CD. I know some people think I am crazy, but I'm in the car a lot. I started getting into them when Andrew lived in Manchester and if he wasn't coming down here to see me, I would be going up there on the weekends. Let me tell you about the traffic on a Friday night from Boston to Manch. It would take over 2 hours sometimes. But the time just melts away when you are listening to a good story. I do enjoy music, but I'm not as into it as some people and listening to someone tell me a story makes time go by so much faster than music alone. I don't think that I could listen to a non-fiction book. It's got to be fiction; it has to be a story.

Even books that I have ready many times over, like the Harry Potter series is great on audio book being ready by a proper English gentleman. Listening to him say Hermione's name is priceless.

So check out your local library. As I said, the CD selection is smaller than the tape collection, but there usually is a decent selection of CD's. And you can rip them onto your iPod and listen at your leisure.

But you don't have to take my word for it! (Take a look, it's in a book, Reading Rainbow!)