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Adding book reviews

During the past five years I haven’t been much of an avid reader. When I was in college I ate up books. I marked them up, wrote notes or reactions in the margins and highlighted them to death. I had plenty of time to read back then. I’ve always preferred non-fiction to fiction. Perhaps it’s a reflection of my journalism training, but a work of fiction has to be really, really good or I get bored quickly.

Last Christmas Ryan and Sara gave me an iPod. It’s now up there with my must-have possessions. I can live without cable TV, but not without my iPod. As a legally blind person I used to get free books on tape from the Library of Congress. I haven’t done that in a long time. For all I know the technology has changed a lot, but I found having to buy the special four/track tape recorders cumbersome. It seemed like they were so fragile, yet so expensive. I was always sending them in for repairs.

My iPod has allowed me to re-discover audio books. It’s so small I can lay in bed at night with a book, or walk around the indoor track at the gym while “reading.” It’s great!

So, now that I’ve rejoined the reading world, I thought I’d add book reviews of my favorite books to my little categories on the blog.
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Unknown said…
That's odd, I never had to buy those four track cassette players. . .they were always on loan. Still cumbersome and they STILL are constantly being sent in for repairs though. ;) Now they've switched to digital players, but they are still cumbersome. Actually I don't really use it any more - i download books from the National Library Service, or Bookshare and put them on my BookSense. :)
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