Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again!

 

Hi, hello dear reading friends! I'm back!! After a indefinite siesta, a global pandemic and a myriad of other crazy things, I've decided it's time to welcome you back in to my cozy & virtual book nook.  2021 was a pretty solid year for reading, but I didn't read as many books as I'd like.  I travel a lot for my day job and I've learned to love the windshield time because it means I can get lost in an audiobook.  As I was closing out the year I thought about ways I could mix up my reading/listening experience in 2022.  And then I had the most brilliant idea (at least I thought it was) -- I needed a reading challenge. I needed to be my own better version of Goodreads and send myself on a journey at the same time.  I decided that every month in 2022 I would listen to the audiobook version of a book I've already read with my eyeballs.  As I started to look at my previous blog and previous posts from this blog I could see many books that I'd love to enjoy through audiobook format.  I'm also just enough of a brain nerd to know that we process differently when we take in words on a page vs. words we hear.  How would a book I read with my eyeballs impact me when I heard it with my ears?  Would my brain remember how it felt when I read it with my eyeballs while I listened with my ears?  To really throw my own hypothesis to the test I chose a book from WAY back in the Utah blogging days called "The Boston Girl." This book changed my life when I read it, but it was seriously 7 years ago.  I won't give away the surprises, but I am so thrilled to be testing myself and attempting to remember what really spoke to me the first time, but also how has my interpretation changed and why has it changed?  

The rules in 2022 have changed ever so slightly but it's because I want to have a plan that is manageable even with a mad hatter professional life.  I've learned in the last year that small and attainable goals are better and so is making time for the things I love.  I love to read and I love to write so here I am.  So, grab a beverage, a snuggly blanket and enjoy the next year of posts about the books I've read and the books I've listened to in the cozy book nook of the The Thrifting Ginger bloggy blog world.  And as always......

Until next time, my lovelies,

-R