Ugh, Mondays. When the fun-loving and fast-living weekend comes to a screeching halt with the sound of your alarm clock, its tempting to pull the covers over your eyes and say ‘Wake me when its Friday!’

Why not approach today as the day you start living a healthier life? Audio books on healthy eating are a great start - its like having a good angel whispering in your ear while you’re eyeing that box of office donuts beside the coffee maker.

You can’t get much simpler than The Beginners Guide To Health Eating. This quickie book is just over an hour long, and written by an American MD.

Eat, Drink and Be Healthy is another simply titled book, but with a slightly different message. This book focuses on debunking food myths using clear, straightforward nutritional science.

You: On a Diet is the latest in a series of the You books that gets great reviews by Simply Audiobooks subscribers. Its kind of like a behind-the-scenes look at how your body runs; and how you can improve that system by eating correctly.

In the poetry category, John Mark Eberhart’s “Broken Time,” Mid-America Press. The second collection from Kansas City Star Books Editor Eberhart sends a love letter to music and musicians (”broken time” is a musical term, we learn, for “improvised syncopation”) and telegrams from a Midwest marked by dreams pulled up short by reality. The final poem, “The Gospel of the Dirt,” about Charles Darwin, is a layered reflection on selection, natural and unnatural.