Reading on the train

I've been officially book-less this week. A few weeks ago Eric bought me The Silmarillion. An awesome book I've read before and was really interested in reading again. It was a lovely gift he bought me from THE STRAND the best bookstore in all of NY.

Anyway, I started the book and I just had to put it down. As they say, life is too short - why finish reading something you don't want to read. Every time I'd read a few pages on the train I would somehow get distracted - and would literally force myself to pick it up again. It was quite annoying, so I gave up.

This weekend I'm going to purchase a book written by one of my co-workers called The Cure For Anything Is Salt Water. The title of the book comes from the beautiful quote from Isak Dinesen, aka Karen Blixen (Think, Out of Africa) who says, "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea".

I have read enough about the book that I'm confident I'll be able to read it on the subway...or maybe I'll even finish it this weekend.

On my subway ride home I noticed a women with a beautiful red handbag reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Now, while this is a great book - you don't usually see too many people reading it on the subway. I mean really - it was published in '98 (didn't everyone read that 10 years ago!). But it got me thinking, what I would give to have been on the subway the morning of July 21, 07. The day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was finally in bookstores - and started disappearing from the shelves. I bet everyone had that book in their hands!

Next on the agenda is a movie at The Pavilion Theater and jazz at Blue Note. Cheers!