On the Road Again
In two days, I will be driving 10+ hours to New Mexico. I will be there for 3 whole days with not a lot of doing of much. I will mostly be sitting on a couch, hopefully cuddling some cats, watching TV and reading books. Therefore, I need to take some books with me.
The driving portions of the trip will also be excellent times to get some audiobook reading in. I will want to listen to music and podcasts, some, but hopefully I can squeeze in an audiobook or two.
So here is what I'm planning to pack for my three day trip.
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Hell in the Heartland by Jax Miller - I've been putting this off until I could dive in, and I will have plenty of uninterrupted reading time, probably.
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The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli - I promised a kid I would take this to New Mexico and read it. I need to catch up to her.
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - I'm taking this one for funsies.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price - This is another one that needs a long chunk of reading time. The ideas build on each other and if I read them in little chunks, they all fall apart. No good.
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The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins - I am currently listening to this one. I'm a bit over halfway through it. I don't think I'll finish it before Friday, so I'll probably finish this off.
After this one, it's so hard to choose! I have so many! I have to decide if I want to read them on paper or audio. There are some books I just really want to read with my eyes and experience holding the book. Others, it doesn't matter so much.
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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley - I'm actually not sure if I would ever bother with picking up this one up in paper. So it would probably be good to go the audiobook route. 14 hours, 13 minutes.
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Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth - This is a dark academia book set in a boarding school for girls. That might be good for a daytime drive. 19 hours, 27 minutes.
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold - I keep meaning to buy this, but I haven't done it, yet. I could probably get away with reading it on audio. 10 hours, 19 minutes.
That's probably enough to keep me in books. I do listen to my audiobooks at 1.5 - 2.0 speed, so the times listed on these is not actually how long it would take. I still can't finish all of them on this trip, even if I did nothing but listen to audiobooks.
I'm taking at least 4 books for a 3 day trip, even though I can't possibly finish them all (there isn't a short book in the bunch) because I want to make sure I have something to fit my mood, whatever that mood is.
Seriously, this whole planning my books thing takes more brain power than planning what clothes I'm going to take!