It all started when I drove up to meet my brother upstate to pick up his kids. It was a long drive so I thought it would be cool to listen to a book. I couldn’t decide on a book so I chose a book I had started to read few years go. “Cell” by Stephen King. It was so good. The drive up flew by because I was so into the book. The drive down was another story. I had to actually talk to my nephew and niece! Oh, talk and play word games.
Anyway, so when I started working in Port Isabel, I knew I would use that 45 minute drive to listen to books. “Cell” was a really long book and just as good. It got so good that I would lay on my hammock here at home listening to it.
I tried another Stephen King book after that but it didn’t do anything for me. It was the “Dark Tower Series”. I still have the whole series in Audiobook if anyone is interested. A few chapters into it I turned it off.
So then I started asking people for recommendations. My friend Christi recommended “The Partner” by John Grisham. Forget it. I was hooked to Grisham books and Audiobooks after that. That was such an awesome book. Every book is compared to “The Partner” now!
As I said, I was hooked to John Grisham books after that so I have listened to “The Associate” and “The Street Lawyer” since then. I tried “The Last Juror” but it just didn’t do anything for me. They were not as good as “The Partner” but still really good. I have all of John Grishams books ready to listen to but took a break and started listening to some books my bosslady recommended. She got hooked on “The Partner” as well.
She recommended to me three books by Mitch Albom. “Tuesdays with Morrie”, “For One More Day”, and “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”. I listened to “For One More Day” and it too was really good and very sad. “Tuesdays with Morrie” started off ok but it turns out Morrie should have wrote Hallmark cards because that’s what it turned out to be. Cheesy advice from a dying old man. Normally, I wouldn’t read what a book was about but with a title like “The Five People You Meet In Heaven” I was compelled to find out if I would be reading some self-help book with a so-called Christian twist to it. It doesn’t appear to be so but it does sound like it is going to be Hallmark-y so I am going to pass on it.
Since I don’t like reading what a book is about, that is why I didn’t write what these books were about; the ones I liked anyway. So, if you know me well enough to trust my judgement, then read or listen to these books too.
I’ll probably start another Grisham book tomorrow unless someone can chime in before then to recommend something.
