So many books, so little time—part five.

This was the year I embraced technology in earnest and had a number of different books going on various devices. I also experimented with going back and forth between reading and audio books, and found I liked it with some books, particularly nonfiction when the author read their own work.

I loved The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot and Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, both of which were book club picks. Henrietta Lacks was also the Santa Barbara Reads pick this year, and Skloot was an amazing speaker at UCSB’s free event. This started a book club tradition that we continue to try to follow by reading the SB Reads books and attending the author talks.

Ironically before I read Let the Great World Spin,  I read a bit of it aloud at the Read-a-thon for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (a great nonprofit that no longer exists). It peaked my interest and that was part of why I picked it up after that and recommended to our book club.

Originally posted January 4, 2012.

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