All this time I've been totally wrong about audio books

Whenever people talk to me about audio books (or podcasts), I joke that I'm too self-absorbed to listen for hours to another person talking.

Today though I for some reason decided to buy an audiobook! I'm reading Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life, which is immensely long (and immensely good), and on Amazon they'll sometimes have these deals where if…