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Dr Ozzy

I had a guy break a bottle over my head on Mass St in Lawrence one night out during college lol. I was so shocked it took like 15 seconds to register. Didn't even feel it

James B.

I love audiobooks, and I've been guilty of saying that I read them. But being open about it sometimes leads to a fruitless discussion about what is reading. I'd rather avoid that by fudging the language.

Roland

Dr Sharon has a REALLY prestigious posting, all y'all probably missed it. She's head of sports psychology at Loughborough University which is acknowledged as the best university in the world for sports stuff. Per the Googles, it has held the #1 global ranking in the QS World University Rankings for ten consecutive years (2017–2026), its dominance coming from a combination of elite facilities, a historic commitment to athletics, and deep industry partnerships.

Jeremy Burch

I finally caught up on all your Ted Lasso reactions yesterday, so I can watch this season as you upload it. They were great reactions, also, totally understood why you had problems with Sharon at first. This season is good so far, the new team is interesting, I'm loving Alice Chilton. While I still love the idea of Roy and Keeley, she's not wrong about him putting her on a pedestal, it's what lead to their breakup and if he doesn't do anything about it and they just got back together like he wanted it may have just led to another breakup.

BrummaGen

Have to disagree on the audiobook thing! Whether or not you use the name 'reading' for the process, in my experience it is not a lesser method for absorbing a book. I regard a book listened to as a book fully experienced, absorbed and digested, just as much as a book read. I have always been a big reader - at periods reading over 100 books per year, in those days that was mostly paper books, a few ebooks and maybe 5 or so audiobooks a year. I have a monthly subscription to an audiobook provider, and used my monthly credits to purchase the longest possible books so as to get the best value for money! Thus I worked my way through many great, long, 19th century works I'd not got round to before - War and Peace, Les Miserables, Crime and Punishment, the Iliad etc. The advantage of audiobook reading for me is that I'm able to do it when travelling on bus or coach - reading makes me sick in cars or busses, but I can listen with no problem. Also I can listen while doing routine boring tasks like housework - but not if I'm cooking following a recipe as that takes concentration which I need for listening. In recent years I am reading fewer paper books, due to health issues making it harder to hold the books and maintain a comfortable posture, and also making me unable to concentrate to read for long periods - so my audiobook listening has increased, and the act of listening doesn't seem to tire my concentration in the same way that reading with my eyes does, so I can listen for far longer than I can read.. Of course it happens that my attention sometimes drifts - but as soon as I realise that has happened, I always rewind until I reach a passage I remember hearing already, and start again. When I listen while tired on a long coach journey, I find myself having to rewind very often as I keep dozing off; after multiple times of listening again to the same paragraph that I"ve wound back to, I have to give up on the book altogether and save it until I'm more awake. But this is just like when reading a paper book - surely you have that experience of reading while sleepy, nodding off and going back to read the same paragraph again several times until you recognise it's no good. I'm not very keen on audiobook reading when it comes to non-fiction or non-narrative works, as I tend to want to go more slowly, absorb the information, perhaps make notes etc if it's something I want to refer back to (e-books are great for this as it's easy to underline passages and make notes without defacing a paper book which I am loath to do). But for fiction, and narrative non fiction like biographies, there is something very appropriate about listening while someone tells the story - it's a reminder of childhood experiences perhaps, of parents reading bedtime stories, but there's something much deeper and older - the experience of pre-literate societies listening spellbound to the community poet or story teller weaving a narrative as they sat round the fire… Now that I've worked my way through the backlog of longer classics, I do find myself using audiobooks partly to re-read (or re-listen if you insist) old favourites. In this case it is not so vital to concentrate hard on every word since I know how the story goes - but even so, I find myself rewinding if I drift at all, because I know it's good and don't want to miss anything on the re-listen. I would not use my audiobook credits for any book that I considered poorer quality - it's a means of me enjoying, and re-enjoying, some of the very best literature. And if you get a really good narrator, it adds an extra depth to the experience compared to reading (I can highly recommend Alan Rickman reading Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native' for a sublime audio experience). Sorry for the long rant! In short, it may not be for everyone, but don't diss audiobook listening as a serious way of encountering a book. When you get to my venerable age and declining health in particular, it may be something you come to value!

vala p

Hello, is you are a USA-ian, the Libby library app also has audiobooks for borrowing. All you need is a library card and you can borrow and download to your heart's content. There are also libraries in Europe that have Libby too, but I am not as familiar.

Dr Ozzy

Nope! Not even a cut. Just some shards of glass in the hair haha