Recently, I had what I would have to call an, NPR out-of-body experience.  I was reading the newspaper and came across a book review written by Maureen Corrigan.  For those of you who don't know her, she teaches at Georgetown University and write books reviews for newspapers and NPR. 

Anyway, I started reading the book review, and then relaized that the voice in my head was no longer my own.  It was Maureen Corrigan's!  All of the sudden my brain just switched over, and all I could hear was her voice.  Okay, so that's a little weird.  But then, not three days later I was in the car on my way home from a business trip, when I heard the her voice again.  And guess what?  She was reading the review that I had recently read in her voice in my house.  Freaky.  I actually found myself finishing her sentences; although this time it was my voice pretending to be her voice that I was hearing.  Double freaky.

She reviewed the book, Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner.  Of course, I had to go out and buy it, even though it's still in hardback and I'm fundamentally opposed to buying hardbook books because it's nearly impossible to bend them in half while reading in bed.  But...  I bought the book.  Although I enjoyed it, I'm afraid it fell a little short of what I'd been expecting.  Afterall, once Maureen Corrigan's voice is reading to you in your head, you start to expect great things.

Now, if only I could hear her voice instead of my mother's whenever she calls.  That would be truly transformative!