Happy Thanksgiving

I was visiting my family for the holiday and although readers were everywhere, especially in the airports, I was too worn out and consumed with my own life to contemplate talking to a stranger about what they were reading. I learned that catching up with relatives, watching magpies, and stirring a custard over a double boiler for an hour can be exhausting.
Late Saturday night I was on my way home, my flight was delayed, and I was hoping it wouldn't be delayed even more. I was pacing up and down concourses in the airport trying to stay awake, frustrated that the wireless at the airport was too finicky to let me upload a new library book to my Overdrive account, when one of my favorite people sent me a link to an article entitled The Need to Read, by Will Schwalbe. Even reading the title of buoyed me up, even though I couldn't read the article in its entirety because I don't subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. The following afternoon I realized that if you do a search for the article instead of following the link, you don't need to be a subscriber. Check it out, and check back for a reader next week. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 16, 2016, Wednesday afternoon -- Reading Ursula K. Le Guin

In the Mission District

She is reading The Unreal and the Real, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
One of her favorite books is A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

November 10, 2016, Thursday afternoon -- Reading author unknown

At a BART station

She is reading a religious pamphlet she just picked up. She mostly reads nonfiction books about medicine. She's a doctor. When she was in her second year of medical school one of her professors told her that if she becomes a doctor she will be a student all the time, and it turned out to be true. Before she went to medical school, she enjoyed reading Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and the four most famous Chinese novels, which when she said this, I was confused, by what she meant, but I've looked it up online and I think she was referring to these novels, which I found on Wikipedia.

October 29, 2016, Saturday afternoon -- Reading Toni Morrison

In downtown San Francisco

He is reading Sula, by Toni Morrison for an African Studies class in school. His favorite book is Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Something good he read recently was Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. He also read all of the Harry Potter books over the summer, which he said kept him busy. He would read the book, then watch the movie after each book.