Photo of the Commonwealth Mall by bettlebrox on flickr.
Is it just me, or is it unseasonably warm outside right now? Funny, considering we're about to get the snowstorm of the year! Why do I live in New England, again? No matter, I have a hot date after work with some friends, a sled, warm brownies, and reading. The perfect way to survive the storm.
Last night I stopped at my favorite book spot in the greater Boston area, armed with my beautiful new Moleskine Book Journal,** where I am carefully detailing all the books I want to read/purchase (yes, this is beyond the 430+ books I already own). I ended up grabbing a discount copy of Steve Martin's Shopgirl (I read The Pleasure of My Own Company and loved it, plus, Steve Martin is a genius if you ask me... if you ignore almost every movie he's done in the past 10 or so years) and a mass-paperback edition of Denis Lehane's Shutter Island (I need to see if the movie will be too scary. Even Leonardo Dicaprio's baby blues can't keep the nightmares away). See, though some posit me as a book snob, I sometimes go for the whole trashy-lit thing, too. I'll admit it, sometimes I fall for the hype. I've read Angels & Demons. I've read Twilight (and every other book in the series... and have seen the movies... and... OMG $P@RKLY V@MP!RES! Ugh, kill me). I think it's important to every reader to have a broad base of what they're reading-- a combination of high- and low-brow. Because, as readers, I feel we should commit ourselves to be keen observers of literature- and therefore culture- as a whole, not just of one particular genre. It's important to see how Literature is evolving (or devolving). Besides, the mind needs a break every once in a while (I used to do algebra* to get that break, now I just read trashy novels. Much better if you ask me).
Stay safe if you're in the New England/Mid-Atlantic area and are getting hit by this storm!
*True story: Back in college, when I overbooked my class schedule and was taking 4 English courses at a time, I used to do college algebra and trig in order to "wind down." Something about the fact that math has a set course and a definitive answer helped talk my brain of its ledge after writing papers on somewhat abstract concepts. It's weird, I know.
** FTC regulations require me to tell you that Moleskine did, in fact, send me a free copy of this journal. However, this was definitely something I would have purchased/begged for as a gift, anyway. And, consequently, would have talked about on my site. Moleskine was just awesome enough to cut out the middle man for me! Some shots of my new baby will come as soon as my home computer stops relinquishing itself to the multitude of viruses eating away at its memory. Ugh.
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