Friday POSBANG

Submitted by GoWings2008 on September 6th, 2019 at 5:50 AM

In honor of Army week...

I like the smell of banging in the morning.

Smells like.... Victory.

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1VaBlue1

September 6th, 2019 at 8:13 AM ^

Haa!!  So true...  My reading stopped cold the day my kid was born.  Not so coincidentally, that was also the day I stopped travelling for work, which was when I did most of my reading.  However, the advent, and discovery, of audio books got me right back into it.  I no longer spend ~3 hours/day in the car listening to the radio (music or talking heads) mindlessly.  I've read almost a dozen books in barely a year since discovery, and I feel renewed!

It did take some mental gymnastics to lower my self-standards and actually listen to that first book being read to me.  But I'm glad I did - what a revelation!  I heartily recommend dropping your playlist for a few days and listening to a book when you're driving, working out, on a walk, or whatever it is you normally do with the radio (or TV, whatever) on in the background.

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A2YpsiBlue

September 6th, 2019 at 8:22 AM ^

Right on - I love audio books and have consumed many of them.  Audible is the one with the most titles and you can expect to pay about $15 for most books.  For cheapskates like me, I first check two library apps called Hoopla and Libby to see if I can get the books for free there first.  All you need is a library card to "borrow" the audio books by downloading them to your phone.  They don't have everything (I'm guessing the publishers don't allow the audio versions on those apps) but I've still gotten some good ones through them.  

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Eng1980

September 6th, 2019 at 11:42 AM ^

I strongly recommend that you read every book your children read and discuss it with them.  Once they are in school you can read the classics again.  I read 1984 and The Great Gatsby to help my daughter.  More importantly, read to your kids.  A Fish Out of Water and the Bearenstain Bears were very popular.  Great memories.

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xtramelanin

September 6th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^

laser,suggest staying away from the 2%, get more steak, too.  i mean, its only 2 kids and you can still play man-to-man defense.  

kidding aside, my life-long pleasure reading did take a dive as we were blessed with more kids, but i will tell you what it morphed into which was every bit, if not more so, enjoyable:  reading as a family.  we pick books as a family and i read to the kids.  this has continued even with 2 in college as they still enjoy hanging out when i'm reading to the other kids.   there will be a time for more selfish reading if/when i get older but what i'm getting done now is very pleasant.  you and your kids will benefit, too, in ways you probably won't even think of. 

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