Just a little addiction

So I'll admit it, I have a new addiction.  When I have it, I use it all the time and when it's gone, all I can think about is getting another.  I'm addicted to audiobooks.  I was able to surprise  this addiction when I was pregnant with James but in the past couple of weeks, it has come back full storm.  For any of you that haven't tried audiobooks, I would totally give it a try.

I first got started about a year and half ago when I started running.  I got tried of listening to the same songs over and over again on my ipod/iphone and didn't want to use all my data listening to pandora. So one time when I was at the library, I stopped by the audiobook section and rented my first one.  I like to load them to my computer then transfer them to my phone so I can listen to them wherever. And I use the library ones because I'm not gonna pay $20 to own the book.  Sorry, for the amount of books I can go through,  that would just be too high of a price tag.

One of the reasons that I love and find myself addicted to audiobooks is just how easy it is for me to 'read' a book.  Especially now I don't have a lot of time to just sit down and read a book and if I want to read the new book that everyone is talking about, I'm gonna have to listen to it, which is perfectly fine with me.


The second reason why i'm obsessed is that I can listen to it pretty much anywhere.  I don't do this so much in the beginning of the book as I do in the middle and the end where it's all I can really think about but I'll listen to it while I clean the house, while we are doing our errands around town and it's really nice when I'm traveling and I don't want to deal with the changing the radio channels or having to switch stations because of all the bad songs and commercials. I can just hook it up to my car and drive and no worry about it.  A friend of mine uses it on her 45 minute commute to work because it seems like when you are stuck in the car at the same time of day you end listening to the same songs over and over again and with audiobooks it a nice escape.

Third and final reason that I jones after audiobooks is the fact that I can't really look ahead and see whats coming up in the book.  The best example I have for this is with the book Gone Girl.  I proudly like to say that I did read it before it became a movie and before everyone became a obsessed.  Yes it may have been just a couple of weeks before but it still totally counts. For everyone who hasn't read it and wants to read it, I would skip to the next paragraph.  I'm serious because I'm gonna ruin it for you in the next sentence, so please just close your eyes and skip.  Thank you.  The book is divided into two parts.  The first part is past Amy and present Nick and you think the whole first part that Nick did kill Amy because Nick comes off as a guy that would totally kill his wife.  But then part two hits you and in the first couple of minutes and I guess pages too, you find out that she is alive and has down this all herself.  It just hits you in the face and I don't think you really get that when you are reading the pages.  There is no surprise, no shock value that you had no way to see coming.

Here are a list of the audiobooks that I have read.

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Fault in our stars - John Green
Girl with the dragon tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin
Something Blue - Emily Giffin
Orange is the new black - Piper Kerman (the only audiobook that I never finished)
Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Help - Kathryn Stockett

The most recent one that I just finished is Heart of the Matter.  It's a pretty easy book to read/listen to.  It's by the same author that wrote the book Something Borrowed that got turned into a movie about 5 years ago.  It was about a women who left her job as a professor to become a SAHM and how she handled with the big change in her life and how it has changed her marriage.  I won't go into much more detail because I don't want to do two spoilers in one post but it did keep me on my toes on what the main character was going to do.   While the books don't cover the deepest and most thought provoking ideas or full of mystery like other books, I do think that Emily does a good job of not revealing what the characters final decision is going to do until the last chapter or so.

 I haven't decided on what my next book that I'm going to listen to is, a lot of it depends on what I'm in the mood for and what is available but I think I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow, If I make it that long.