Karen’s Book Nook

Making my way through the Newbery Medal winners, I came across this one, Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis in the online audio book section of my library. I’m hoping to get through the 5+ hours of listening before it expires while I’m away for the weekend.

I’ve been reading quite a bit over the last couple of weeks, most especially since I’ve been turning on an audio book while working around the house rather than listening to podcasts on my ipod. (I listen to those during my walks to work.) Now that the assessment for work is finished I’ve also had more time to read. As always, I could care less about TV so reading is my past time of choice most days. Since I’ve made some brief comments in the library entries themselves I’ll leave it at that. You can read them with each book description.

So far this month I’ve read 5 audio books, with most of them being children’s literature by Newbery Medal winning authors: The Messenger and Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry, companion books to Newbery book, The Giver; The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo and The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, both Newbery medal winners. I also read a memoir, A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel via audio book this month. Some people are not auditory folks so listening to a novel while doing another task is not enjoyable or doable for them but I thoroughly enjoy it. I think that one of the reasons is that I love to listen to different dialects and love to hear the narrators’ voices when they tell me the stories.

I also read a few non-fiction books as well: Making Autism a Gift: Inspiring Children to Believe in Themselves and Live Happy, Fulfilling Lives by Robert Evert Cimera, The Elements of Organic Gardening by HRH Prince Charles, Mac OS X Leopard for Dummies, and I finished Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man.

As for fiction, I finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire (finally!) and read Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen. I’m currently reading The 6th Target by James Patterson and will probably finish it by the weekend.