Words To Live By

I am an avid reader (for someone who is dyslexic too!). I usually have more than one book going, one for the MAX train & one for at home, & in the summer, one for the beach. I subscribe to 22 magazines, which I read as a book- from front to back, letters to the editor to appendix.The magazine habit started when my Aunt Sharon gave me a subscription to The New Yorker & Variety when I was 8 years old. I collect certain writes & genres. I have gone through phases of The Algonquin Round Table & Bloomsbury groups. My favorite book is The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. I love to get lost in a good novel, but I tend to move toward biographies, memoirs & essays. A great way for me to waste a rainy afternoon in winter is to slowly leaf through a "coffee table" book likeThe Hill Towns of Italy.

A book arrived on Friday & the husband was all- "what is it, what is it?". I unwrapped- The Selected Essays Of Gore Vidal (an author I collect) & the husband (quite the reader himself) looked crest fallen & dryly tossed off (in the manner of Mr. Vidal, himself)- "But, of course".

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are"
Gore Vidal