books on tape (and cd) saved me

as mentioned in my previous post, i traveled long and far to drop ted off, go to a wedding, pick ted up, and get back to ely. in all my driving, thankfully, i had books on tape. they helped me get through the almost endless hours of driving virtually painlessly.

it was sheer brilliance how ted and i ended up at the library the day before the 5-turned-6 day adventure began. we were walking around, he was looking for poetry by robert frost or some other guy i can't remember right now, and i wandered by the books on tape after checking my email and thought - what a great idea! so, here's what we checked out:

ted's choices:
to build a fire - jack london
lewis and clark: the journey of the corps of discovery - ken burns
sick puppy - carl hiaasen

kristen's choices:
maybe (or maybe not) - robert fulghum
all i really needed to know i learned in kindergarten - robert fulghum
don't know much about history - kenneth c. davis
the heart of a woman - maya angelou
memoirs of a geisha - arthur golden
the postman always rings twice - james m. cain

ted also got road kill by kinky friedman, but the tape didn't play because it was broken. bummer.

of all the books listed above that i did actually listen to...

• the postman always rings twice was the most like a trashy romance novel (and i didn't get to listen to all of it since we got home before it was over), but it was read by stanley tucci who i really like
• to build a fire was the shortest and had the saddest ending
• the two robert fulghum books were short but somewhat inspiring
• i enjoyed the heart of a woman and memoirs of a geisha the most
• lewis and clark was more enlightening than don't know much about history, since i knew nothing about lewis and clark before that, and the book was quite thorough. i did learn a few things in the don't know much about history book, which i can review on my own since i own the paperback book. it's just difficult for me to absorb so much information so quickly about so many different things.
• sick puppy was second in length to lewis and clark, and the story had a few weird twists and turns but was very well read.

if anyone has read any worthy books or listened to any worthy books on tape recently and would like to recommend them, please do! i have a bunch of books to read in my current reading queue, but i'm always looking for good books to read in case i run out one day :)