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Wiley, yes, paying attention at first is very difficult, but it is a
learned skill. At first, my mind wandered away from the reader and the story. I would have to rewind and refocus. Finally, I was able to tune out everything but the reader and the story. Try, try again, Wiley. It's great for long drives.....better than music. Keeps you awake when the reader is fantastic and the story is a good one.
posted by
benzinha
on March 31, 2004 at 7:57 AM
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benzinha
always a lovely read you are, and if I had audio books I'd haveta fast forward over the sex talk now. Isn't getting old just grand? I can't concentrate on them, I had one but couldn't pay attention, guess I have ADD with audios.
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WileyJohn
on March 31, 2004 at 7:45 AM
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Friar Tuck, yes! I have my grandson read to me when I babysit him on
Wednesdays now. He has trouble reading and I must work at clay when he visits on Wednesdays, and he knows how I love to listen to stories while working......so, I told him about how children used to read to their grandmothers in the good old days.....and he has agreed to do so again, for his old Abuelita.
I have a library of children's books here which they would all rather ignore. Now, I have bribed them, I pay my readers two dollars an hour to read to me and they all agree to do it now. I am working on 'dramatic reading' with the older girls.
Everything old is new again.
posted by
benzinha
on March 31, 2004 at 7:38 AM
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bb, maybe he coud wear headphones!!!!
posted by
benzinha
on March 31, 2004 at 7:33 AM
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Audio books!
Now we are really going backwards! Did you know that before printing was invented, people listened to books being read?!
Who said "backward" ain't modern?!
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on March 31, 2004 at 6:53 AM
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Benzinha
You may have a point there. Perhaps that is best left for the painter in the family
posted by
beachbelle
on March 31, 2004 at 1:24 AM
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jemmie and LadyK, thanks for reading. One of my favorite memories is of a
kiln full of angels and twisting snakes. They were all stacked upon each other and the picture of it has stayed with me forever. Snakes crawling all over angels. Spooky. I had an order for two hundred angels and one hundred snake ornaments for Christmas trees.
I curve the six inch long snakes around a tube to make them hang down from their heads into spirals, like tree icicles. They all wear bolo ties around their necks and I have somehow made them popular here in the West for trees decorated in the southwestern style.
How about Snakes and Angels as a book title??!?!
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benzinha
on March 31, 2004 at 12:57 AM
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beachbelle, yes, audio cassettes for artists.
Many people who have busy hands and cannot find the time to read, have taken up audio books. I am a bibliophile who cannot stop reading even when my hands are covered with terra cotta clay.......many quilters and seamstresses I know use them, too. But, wouldn't the sound of stone carving cover up the reader's voice?
posted by
benzinha
on March 31, 2004 at 12:51 AM
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What's Sue going to do when she runs out of letters?
I agree with you 100% re: King. That's the crap side of being a writer, I guess-- imagination runs away with me. I also read his "On Writing" and enjoyed it, but that's it! And-- fifty little angels-- now THAT is a book title!
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LadyKenobi
on March 30, 2004 at 2:25 PM
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Abuelita
Glad to know you are well. *hugs*
posted by
Jemmie211
on March 30, 2004 at 10:17 AM
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Benzinha
Audio cassettes...great idea for artists. I might suggest that to the one in my life
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beachbelle
on March 30, 2004 at 6:00 AM
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