You might be surprised to learn that I was an audiobook holdout for a long time!

What changed everything: listening to Ursula's Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, narrated by Rob Inglis, while returning -- slowly, painfully -- to distance running last summer.

Around & around the track I went, plugging into a completely different world.

The experience stunned me: As I was drawn into the story, the inner critical monologue -- you can't do this, who do you think you are? -- that constitutes my biggest obstacle to running simply faded away.

I'd given my imagination something else to do, instead of playing the same self-defeating junk on loop.

Do audio books do anything for you? Do you enjoy them?

You can sample the audiobook of The Great Houses of Pill Hill here: youtube.com/shorts/_y7Q…

Mia Barron narrates; she has a lovely voice. :)

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