Novel Confessions

I have a confession to make. I’m a Baldacci snob when it comes to Audible pleasure listening. Since retiring from Microsoft, one of my true pleasures is to be able to get lost in a story, and Audible makes that very easy with the array of titles they offer. I had remembered my books on tape from commuting days, and once I drove around the block three times just to hear the end of a Baldacci story. So when Audible presented his novels as chosen for me, I eagerly downloaded one, then two, then a boxed set of three…you can see where this is going, I got totally hooked. Addicted. Waiting for the next credit became torturous, I had to buy three extra credits to get my fix, they had me.

Since my vision is deteriorating, listening instead of reading has become my main source of information input. I have many days that are cloudy despite the sunshine outside, and listening has become a coping mechanism as well as a respite. I enjoy my story listening, not multitasking while the narrator takes me into other places and characters. Since I have finished so many Baldacci novels in the last three months, I decided to try a different author, so I downloaded a Tom Clancy novel. I’m sorry, the storytelling is not nearly as good at capturing your whole attention as David Baldacci’s writing. So there’s my confession, and now you know…