Matilda

Sarah was asking me if I could get the new Mara Wilson autobiography out of the library as an audio book.  Mara Wilson was the actress that played Matilda in the movie that Sarah watched over and over a thousand times when she was 3 years old.  I looked it up on the 4 libraries that I have cards for and none of them had the audio book.  They all had the ebook.  So I got the ebook out and I told Sarah that I would send her the ebook but Sarah said she doesn't read anymore.  Barb said if I was a good parent, I would read the book aloud and record it for Sarah to listen to.  So I spent 8 hours reading the book into my Android.  One chapter I was reading and Barb was listening and both of us started crying, it was so sad.  Barb said that I wasn't holding the Android close enough to my mouth and that it was going to be too soft to hear.  She was right when I played it back it was too soft to hear.  So I plugged my Android into my computer and used my software to re-record it and amplify it and re-save it.  I got it finished just in time for Sarah's birthday.  Then I uploaded it to Google Drive and sent it to her.  She didn't listen to it for weeks and we kept asking her about it but we didn't tell her that I had read it for her. She thought she was getting the actual audio book.  We bugged her and bugged her to listen to it.  When she finally listened to a little of the book, she realized that I was reading it and she sent me a sad iMessage saying that she couldn't listen to it.  We asked her why but she wouldn't tell us.  She never listened to it.  Maybe I will get her the real audio book when the library gets it.