Audiobook review: Imagine, by Jonathan Lehrer

Today was a first: I finished my first audiobook … that I bought for running.

For some runs, and long runs especially, I find it a lot easier to run to podcasts than music. It distracts me better. I feel like I’m learning something. Any of my in real life friends can tell you that because I’m such a parrot:   “I heard today on this podcast that 90 percent of … (blah blah blah).”

But the podcasts weren’t sustaining me. I have my two standbys, This American Life and Planet Money, which are great but only about an hour a week. I like Dan Savage, but I don’t find its good to run to; I listen to that when cooking, mostly. Or driving somewhere with Tony. And the occasional Radiolab podcast is good, but I think they only come out once a month.

So I broke down after years of advertising and bought an Audible.com account in April.

It’s really easy to use! And it’s a good deal, too — you pay $9 a month for the first three months and with that, you get one credit a month. Each book costs about a credit, though a few cost more than one. I found it pretty easy to figure out how to get the file into iTunes and on my iPhone.

I picked Imagine by Jonathan Lehrer for my first book.

It’s about the circumstances under which creative ideas come about. The subtitle is “How creativity works,” and some of the insights are really good.

The author narrated the book and I will give him a 5 for the idea, 4 for the execution, and a 1 for the performance. He had a really nasally arrogant voice. (Maybe I was channelling my frustration with the long runs at him).

Pattie Reaves

About Pattie Reaves

I'm a new mom and renegade fitness blogger at After the Couch. I live in Brewer with my husband, Tony, our daughter Felicity, and our two pugs, Georgia and Scoop.