One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

Hi Everyone,
I am now going to start my audio book list. Didn't get into audio books until Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown as the book was just too dry. And then on my work commute passed the time "reading"

Previous minutes read:

1. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - 1060 minutes
2. This Time Together: This Time Together by Carol Burnett - 343 minutes
3. Married to Laughter by Jerry Stiller - 300 minutes
4. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah - 883 minutes
5. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella -905 minutes
6. The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim-990 min
7. Savor the Moment(Bride Quartet #3) by Nora Roberts
....600 minutes
8. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson - 1,485 minutes
9. Happily Ever After by Nora Roberts - 543 minutes
10.Dream When You Are Blue by Elizabeth Berg-600 min.
11.Battle Hymn of the Tiger by Amy Chua - 360 minutes
12.Dewey's Nine Lives by Vicki Myron - 420 minutes
13.Two Kisses for Maddie by Matthew Logelin-380 min.
14.Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley - 1,197 minutes
15.One Summer by David Balducci - 495 minutes
16.Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman - 720 minutes
17.Stolen Life: A Memior by Jaycee Duggard - 450 min.
18.Brooklyn by Colm Toibin - 450 minutes


AS OF 12/22: 12,181 and only 5 more pages in my list to pick out the audio books.

That's a start. Oh I really enjoyed the books. I may have to try audio fir a ReRead of that bad boy!

Which book do you plan to "re-read"? Is it something on my list or ????

Da Vinci Code... :) sorry, I shoul of clarified!

That's alright, just didn't know which "bad boy" you were referring to. And I'd recommend doing audio on Lost Symbol as well.

I have not read that one, lost symbol. I enjoyed the one after the di Vinci code... Can't think of the name right now. But can't stand the movie for it.

How was the Ben Franklin book? Long, did you learn anything? Tidbits that stuck with you?

The Ben Franklin book I definitely don't think I could have made it through the hardback version. It's been awhile since I "read" that but I do remember them mentioning the number of mistresses he had, plus an illegitimate son I believe he didn't acknowledge till the end of his life. Also I think he might have started a system for FREE book lending, our good old public library system.

What part of the country do you live?

I live in Wisconsin right now. 20 minutes from the Packers Stadium. However, soon (Feb) I'll be calling Guilin, Guangxi, China home.

And you?

I live in Northridge, CA which is about 20 minutes North of Hollywood, CA (Tinseltown). Plus I'm a native Californian which is fairly unusual these days as far as adults are concerned.

When you move to China is that temporary and what will you be doing?

I was just close by there. I had stop at UCLA to talk to a few professors.

It will be semi perm. I will be teaching English this semester. Coming home for late summer/early fall & then head back for another year of teaching. After that I will have to decide to stay or come back to finish one my degrees. I have a apartment there and in Thailand.

Well too bad we didn't "chat" sooner. Maybe next time we can get together for Starbucks or ???

Anyway, you adventure sounds rather interesting. Will you still be involved here while in China? Also where is Guilin in relation to Hong Kong? BTW, why an apartment there plus Thailand. You mentioned two degrees what subjects are they in.

Thanx for answering all my questions because I enjoy getting to know people who are as nice as you. Would you like to possibly become Facebook friends?

Coffee is always good!

Adventure is my middle name. Raised army/navy brat. Sitting still is not in my blood. I find something new to do all of the time. Make rockets, work for the smithsoian, drive cross country to Cali on a whim. I decided to go and packed up. Within hours I was driving.

I should be able to be on GR. I'm getting a secure VPN address for my iPhone. We will have to see if it works. Hong kong... 10 hour train ride north. I've lived in Thailand as well. I have a life lease on a place in my "hometown". Then of course my place in Guilin. I'll be there soon enough. It will be home for the next year an half to two year min. Best way to learn a language. Jump right in. Just another under my belt I guess.

Degree in Biological & physical sciences w High honors. Working in multiple others. History & religious studies among them.

Just went to good reads and have already sent the request. I'm looking forward to this other side of you. TTYS

Some more audio books previously read:

1. If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't by Betty White - 150 minutes
2. Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares - 601 Minutes
3. Life Beyond Measure:Letters to My Great-Granddaughter by Sidney Poitier - 630 minutes
4. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown - 1,050 minutes
5. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch - 270 minutes
6. Vision In White Vision in White (Bride Quartet #1) by Nora Roberts - 572 minutes
7. Married to Laughter by Jerry Stiller - 240 minutes

8. These books are all written by Sophie Kinsella:
...Confessions of a Shopaholic - 705 minutes
...Shopaholic Abroad - 765 minutes
...Shopaholic & Baby - 759 minutes
...Remember Me - 770 minutes

9. Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult-915
10.Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins- 910 minutes

12/24 Listing Total: 8337

COMBINED TOTAL FOR AUDIOBOOKS ON READ LIST AS OF
12/25 is 20,518 minutes

Wow! That is a lot of listening!

Well I used to have at least a 30 minute commute to work and would just listen plus when running errands. Normally I didn't read more than one book at a time in the past but since discovering audio it's helped me do that and now with my KOBO I can read 3 at a time if I wanted to.

Happy Holidays.

multi tasking books. my kind of gal ;)

Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs - 840 minutes
A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell- 300



TOTAL FOR DECEMBER AS OF
(12/27) is 21,658 minutes

Have you tried the Atlantis Rising audiobooks?? Same reader from Shipbreaker.

I usually get audiobooks from the library. What are this company you're referring to? Also, is Shipbreaker a book and by whom?

Ah, I just started getting them from audible.com ship breaker is a YA dystopian. I like the guys voice and I think he does a good job making it different for each character.

Thanx for the suggestion, but right now if I can get the book from my local library I prefer that method. Guess when you're over seas something like audible.com works better.

How's the weather in your neck of the woods? We'll be in the mid to moderate 70's through New Year's at least. Fall has returned to Southern CA, hooray!!!!

That is why I'm trying it out now. I wanted to check it out before hand. So far I'm liking it. Although the two credits a month will not be enough for me while over there. But two is better then none!

For being in Wisconsin... there is no snow which is very weird. Yesterday felt like spring. This global warming is just odd. and makes me sad :(

It definitely has been a wierd weather year in Southern CA as well. Our summer was one of the coolest on record.

Sorry you didn't have a white Christmas. Our evenings have been in the mid to low 40's which isn't fun for us.

Hope you get lucky at Bingo.

I really hope so too! I need some bucks to pay for my plane ticket. Yeah, I'm a bit behind. LOL!

Lori, did Betty White read the version of her book you listened to?

I listened to "You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't - Betty White and it was read by her. This made the listening fun because I felt as if she was talking to me.

Have her latest "Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo" from the library. Most likely will start after Jan. 1 so can be included with the 12 x 12 for 2012 challenge.

Will be starting an audio about Walt Disney that's only 2 discs long. And curious how much of his life, etc. they can discuss in such a short amount of recording. Will let you know.

Lori wrote: "I listened to "You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't - Betty White and it was read by her. This made the listening fun because I felt as if she was talking to me.

Have her latest "Betty & Friends: ..."

Awesome I'm glad it was her reading and not someone else, it would have taken away from the joy of the book, I think.

I think Neil Gaiman reads some of his books as well. It's fun to see how the author brings the characters out how they wrote them w emotion in their voice.

MY 2012 READING TIME FOR "AUDIOBOOKS":


JANUARY

**420 Minutes**


**97 Minutes**


MARCH

**270 minutes**


**210 minutes**



APRIL

**420 minutes**





Total Minutes for 2012: 1,417 Minutes (As of Apr. 23)