Today has consisted of a series of incredibly bad decisions. What's worse, none of the decision had to be made, much less be made poorly. Only one of them is relevant to my writing and reading world.
I started listening to Nelson DeMille's Lion's Game. It's a book I've always seen on bookshelves at the bookstore, at the Half Price Books, at Amazon, and each time I gloss by it and remind myself that soon I need to read it. Another book that is in that same category . . . The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I keep meaning to read it, will I? Probably not.
The bad decision about Lion's Game is that I down loaded it through Audible.com in order to listen to it in the car. I've always been an audible book listener. In highschool I would go to the local library and check out books to listen to. I think my first experience with Dick Francis was through an audio version of one of his books, listed to while in the parking lot of highschool prior to the ringing of the first bell. I've been a subscriber of Audible.com off and on for several years. I'm "on" now thanks to On Writing by King. Why listen to sports or political talk shows while driving when I can fine tune my ability to write?
Lion's Game is very good. I usually don't like books that switch POV as this one does, but he does it well. It's immediately engaging and already, just a few minutes into the book, I have heard several lines I wish I had read on the Kindle so I could highlight them and share them hear. So, . . . big mistake in not reading it. Not the biggest I made today though.
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