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Audiobooks to Get You Through the Most Distracted of Times
Credit.Christy Lundy
Dec. 22, 2020
As with my social life, my travel plans and most traces of inner peace, something destructive happened to my attention span this year. With nothing but time on my hands, I still found it difficult to focus on the written word. Book in lap, my mind wandered to the latest coronavirus numbers; as if by some unholy instinct, I’d put the book down and blankly scroll through Twitter. Enter the audiobook. While washing dishes, or on walks through the neighborhood or, yes, even while doomscrolling, the voices of some authors and narrators started feeling like those of the friends I missed. For those just starting to dip into the world of audiobooks, these recent releases may persuade you to keep listening.