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Listening to audible - CDs.

Very difficult to understand what is being said when the Chinese female character is spoken in faux-Chinese. Just read the words, ok? So we can understand the dialog.

I listen to pop culture books on CD to 'white noise' tinnitus when I'm painting a room or when I'm driving.

2/3 of the way thru Patriot Threat, tinnitus seems preferable.
If I'd been driving, I'd have fallen asleep.

Good novels draw me into the world of the story -- an enjoyable form of escape. Berry's intrusions into the story: "I stayed at this hotel!" break the spell. The voice is especially jarring.

Characters:
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Slade, former president of Princeton, Presby minister
his grandchildren, esp. Annabelle, 19, engaged to _____
Grover Cleveland, former president, now resident at Princeton

Wilson has lots of real or imagined physical ailments for which he takes numerous OTC cures, including opiums, morphines, etc. RECALL researching early 20th c. newspapers in Canton & numerous drug ads

Characters:
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Slade, former president of Princeton, Presby minister
his grandchildren, esp. Annabelle, 19, engaged to _____
Grover Cleveland, former president, now resident at Princeton

Wilson has lots of real or imagined physical ailments for which he takes numerous OTC cures, including opiums, morphines, etc. RECALL researching early 20th c. newspapers in Canton & numerous drug ads