BOOK IT!

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?