One way and another, I’ve had a fairly difficult 6 months. Getting back to normal now, but somehow I’ve fallen into a total reading rut after being a lifelong bookworm. I just cannot get myself back into it, and I don’t know why.
Hopefully, that will pass, but in the meantime I’ve started a new job and am commuting by car rather than tube for the first time in years.
So that gives me about 6-8 hours a week driving time when I could be listening to someone read to me. Not as good as reading to myself, but definitely an improvement over the Times crossword and too much time on MN.
Please tell me about the best audio book apps….what works, what’s worth spending money on, what can I play in the car if that matters? And land your
best listening recs on me to: what’s so good that I’ll be glued to it even when I’m parked outside the house or late for a meeting?
My tastes: 40 plus years of mostly science fiction, classic fiction, modern novels, classics (both literally and in terms of English literature), a little bit of old fashioned whodunnits, a good wallop of steampunk, a smattering of magical realism and a chunk of anything goes as long as it’s good.