Most days I'm busy. Like, I have
to schedule a five minute phone conversation or time to pee because just-about-every-minute-of-the-day-is-full busy. I'm also a big fan of reading. In
elementary school, I was always the one in class who was most enthusiastic about BOOK
IT. Remember this??!
You read a certain number of
books every week and wrote down the titles on a sheet. A certain number of
books equaled a star, and then those stars on your BOOK IT pin got you a
personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. One time in second grade it was raining, and
my Dad went into Pizza Hut to get my pizza while I stayed in the car, and they
didn't want to give it to him because he wasn't with a kid. I like to imagine my Dad trying to
hustle a personal pan pizza by exploiting a reading program for elementary school
children. Don't worry, they ended up giving it to him.
Now that I'm older I realize that
Pizza Hut was probably just trying to generate some sweet revenue, but I always
looked at the gold star as a huge honor.
So, speaking of books, this was
the best book I read last year:
It's about a professor in South
Africa, a scandal and his daughter. It starts out one way, and then it goes in
another direction entirely. I'm not here to give you a plot summary, just know
that it's very good. My goal for the year is to try and read at least a handful
of, let's say at least seven or so, books.
So far in 2013 I have almost completed a book of Dave Eggers' short stories,
How We Are Hungry. Sigh, I need to make more time for reading!
What's your
favorite book?
