Communication problems

The problem is I just don't feel like communicating.  I feel out of it since the world seems to be all about communicating.  Facebook, twitter et al.

Light from heaven, by Jan Karon.  The audiobook is read by John McDonough.  I was so excited to find this audiobook in the Vineland Public Library.  I thought I had read or listened to all of the Mitford series.  In this one, Father Tim and his wife, Cynthia, are housesitting out in the country several years after his retirement.  A new project comes his way and more and more people get involved in his life.  He is put in charge of an old abandoned church in the mountains.  I know these books are kind of corny and quite religious, but I just love them.  So what if people say things like "Dad gum it!"  On the container it says it is the last one in the series, but I think she wrote one or two more (that I didn't really like).  Mitford is a small town in North Carolina and Father Tim Kavanagh is an aging Episcopal priest.  According to the box, the books are "welcome reminders of the simpler and gentler pleasures of life".

Washington : a life, by Ron Chernow. I got this book on my Nook and it was quite fascinating.  You can only borrow the books for two weeks through the Overdrive system available through many libraries.  The book was 1193 pages and I didn't finish it in two weeks.  I have to keep a paper list to record such problems as this.  So, I borrowed it again and like a miracle, the book didn't expire.  I don't know why.  Sometimes they hang around for an extra week as long as you don't go around a wireless connection.  But this one lasted more than one week longer than it was supposed to.  Now I want to go to Mount Vernon.  The book followed him through his military career and through his presidency.  The inauguration was in New York City and I was reading it during the inauguration of Barack Obama.  Some of the features of George Washington's inauguration are still with us today, such as using the actual Bible and having the ceremonies outdoors.  I forgot that Philadelphia was the capital for awhile around 1790.  In fact, even though Washington started planning Washington, he never got to live there.  Interesting sidelights were his difficulties making ends meet and his actions and thoughts around slavery.  He didn't want to sell anyone, but did not want to deal with the problems of liberating his slaves.  But, as more and more children were born, he ended up with over 300 slaves (many of them elderly or young) to support.  His goal was to live until the year 1800 but he died shortly before the previous year ended.