I have a job where I can listen to a radio or whatever while working. I can still multitask enough to do this. I listen to quite a few books on tape. All of us in our department are quite well read. Well listened I guess you could say.
I happened to note something a few weeks ago. I was listening to Wally Lamb's book, I Know This Much Is True, and the protaganist is quite angry through most of the book. I really liked the book by the way. But the people I work with seemed to think I was rather crabby that week.
The next book I listened to was Jane Eyre, and I think I walked around like a rather smug, tight, Englishwoman that week.
Last week was an old book called The Shell Seekers, and it was being read by Lynn Redgrave, so I was pretty smug then, too.
This week I have Garrison Keillor's latest, Pontoon. Now this should be interesting.
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Don't read any Steven Spielberg novels while you are working. Someone may have you committed.
Sue
Good advice -- Do you mean Stephen King? I don't read those anyway.
I haven't read Pontoon, but I hope it doesn't make you start acting like a Norwegian Bachelor Farmer.
I soooo get this! When I read The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver I was really cross with my husband (well, more than usual). I definitely think great books can infect our moods. And they should. It is one of those things I love about reading: making me feel things I never would have otherwise.
Yah, I thought about it later that is was Stephen King.
Sue
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