rabbit series, updike

the past few months i have had to be in the car a lot, driving to various appointments and what-not. so i have started listening to books on tape to pass the time. i always wanted to read john updike's rabbit series, so i have been listening to those. in some ways, i feel like i'm not actually reading the books... i almost feel like it's cheating to listen to them rather than read. but it also makes me appreciate each word more, like when the person reads them out loud pronoucing each syllable and phrase. and each sentence of updike's is really beautiful-- it's definitely a good author to listen to on tape.

anyways, the reason i'm writing this post is today i finished the third book, rabbit is rich, and started the fourth and final one (although there is rabbit remembered, not sure if that's actually part of the series...), rabbit at rest. and it was really interesting to find out that rabbit at rest was published in 1990, the same year i was born. i thought that was kind of ironic/an odd coincidence/kind of cool .....