挺喜欢现在的公司, 工作和同事们. 美中不足的就是来回一趟要将近45-50分钟左右, 比以前多了一倍还多. 我不喜欢一个人开长途车, 更不希望成为车祸统计数目之一. 但没别的更好的选择, 就只好想尽办法使自己在车里有点事儿干. 老公给装了XM电台, 每天上下班路上换着台听听也很快觉得没什么劲. 想着自己原来在国内很喜欢看小说的, 到了美国以后读书拿学位, 后来找到工作又结婚再有了孩子, 没什么属于自己的时间. 在此虽读过很多课本, 读过对增进具体知识和自己进步 (Self Improvement)有用的书, 但没时瞷看过几本小说, 尤其是英文的.
上网一查, 激光盘上的书要价非凡. 我一般也不会一书听两遍, 觉得买来太浪费了. 朋友说你为什么不去公共图书馆看看. 这才找到听书的源泉. 很想借网上介绍的有4-5 颗星的好书或是什么卖得最好的书. 无奈小镇公共图书馆不大, 书源非常有限, 所以我也没有太多的选择. 数了数, 二十个月内我已经听了大概40 来本书. 收获不小. 现在甚至有点喜欢开车了. 有好书时, 有时周末还惦记着书里的情节, 巴不得星期一早点来 ：-（.
以下是我一年多来听过的书. 有些我看过电影, 但没读过原本. 带星号的是我认为比较好的, 值得一读的书. 这些书不但有娱乐作用, 也更使我了解了世界各地的人土风情, 习俗观点, 开拓了我的眼界.
Audio Books (Starting Nov. 2011 to June 2013):
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel * - Somali-Dutch-American feminist - 非洲索马里
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code *
Lee Child: Nothing to Lose
Arthur Golden: Memories of a Geisha * - Japanese woman before and during the WWII
John Grisham:
The Firm*
The Pelican Brief *
Calico Joe
The Appeal
Skipping Christmas
The Chamber
David Guterson: Snow Falling On Cedars * - Japanese-American immigrants before and during WWII
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea * - classic – I’ll trying to get more
Dee Henderson: The Negotiator
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns * - Afghanistan three generation woman’s lives
Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs *
Diane Johnson: Le Divorce – Lives about Americans live in France
Debbie Macomber:
- Back on Blossom Street
- Christmas Letters
- A Good Yarn
- 1225 Christmas Tree Lane
像琼瑶小说, 故事人物差不多, 看后混在一起记不清了. ">但她讲的人都住在一个小镇上, 每部书有些连接. 有点创意.
Henning Mankell (Author) Laurie Thompson (Translator): The Man from Beijing – Early Chinese immigrants
mso-ansi-language:EN">Stephenie Meyer: Twilight – don’t like most animated or fantasized or superhero or vampire-themed novels :-(.
James Patterson – Killer, Diller, Thriller – not my cup of tea, but again I do not have much choice. Good to kill time.
- Sundays at Tiffany’s
- The Lake House
- The 4th of July
- The 9th judgment
- The 11th Hour
- The Quickie *
Tom Perrotta: Little Children * - interesting outcomes and very dark
J.K. Rowling:
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone *
- The Chamber of Secrets *
- The prisoner of Azkaban
- The Goblet of Fire
- The Order of the Phoenix
- The Half-Blood Prince
- The Deathly Hallows
为孩子们听的书. 开头两部还不错, 但耐着性子听完了其余的. 知道这里很多人喜欢, 我可能太老了. 听到后来, 就想what else J. K. Rowling can make up now? Again, I don’t like most animated or fantasized or superhero or vampire-themed novels. 只是我个人观点.
Lisa See: Dreams of Joy * - great leap forward – 大跃进年代从国外回归的人的悲惨但坚强的命运.
Danielle Steel:
- The House
- Second Chance
- Betrayal
- Five Days in Paris
也有点像琼瑶小说.
Adriana Trigiani: The Shoemaker's Wife * - Italian immigrants after WWI
A Prairie Home Companion pretty good jokes * - 很好笑 干净 好的笑 话不一定非每句话里都带骂人的词。 我一人在车里大笑， 你要是在路上看见 可别认为我有毛病啊 :-).
Malcolm Gladwell
and Daniel Pink ?