MaryD, I know what you mean about your brain clicking and ticking off to oblivion. I actually started regularly using audibles in the hospital...all those tubes/needles, in/out, people/personnel, sleep/sorry, wake up...Put ear phones on and people actually leave you alone for a little bit...not long, but for a bit...at least longer than the 20 min when they ignore a sleep mask or shut eyes. The book choices didn't matter, I was desperate for real sleep, and they put me OUT. ๐ด When I got home, I began choosing old favorites like Christie, Sayers, Wodehouse, Fielding, Alcott, Scott, Dumas....some are nice to fall asleep to, but stitching and listening is the most richly decadent thing I do for myself. Ahh, for a unclenched mind...some people drink, I listen and savor. ๐
I, too, an fascinated by Ms. Clinton...talk about a battered woman! Vilified, humiliated and she just keeps plugging away. I quit asking what people thought...the more venemous didn't wait to be asked and some women...it's the strangest thing, they open their mouths and their men's voices come out! During the Clinton administration, I worked on a line with 96% men...voluble, opinionated, misogynistic, Hillary-hating men. I've heard EVERYTHING! And that's when the ventriliquism fantasies began...sometimes, I see the strings. ๐ Haven't read the biography, but I'm on the waitlist...only 27 to go! ๐ฐ