For the Love of Audio Books

Well it's been some time since my last post and I blame it entirely on Summer Vacations, which coincidently is a great way to tie in the topic of this post. I have been asked; 'where did you first find your love of audio books?' and it came at a very early age while on a long cross country car trip for Summer Vacation. What was the first audio book (or book on tape as CD's and most definitely downloads didn't exist yet) I ever listened to? Pete's Dragon!

Over and over again my parents would play these tapes for us and surprisingly enough, we were entertained; THE ENTIRE TIME. Looking back, I'm positive that my parents thought they had found a goldmine in books on tape and they had, in so many different ways. All subsequent trips included books on tape up until we were old enough to read novels ourselves. And so began my 10 year absence from books on tape.

When I graduated university and began my first job; my daily commute was an hour and 10 mins each way. That's a significant amount of time to be stuck in the car with nothing really to do but look around. So I returned to audio books; this time on CD and I haven't looked back. I love them all; fiction, biographies, business, romance, I'm even learning French as we speak.

So my question to any and all who read this post; where did you first experience audio books?