My Favorite Things of the Week

New York Restaurant Week
A 3-course dinner at a nice Manhattan restaurant for $35 - you can't beat it! We went to Crema. I highly recommend the flautas. If Restaurant Week came more than twice a year, I would be way fatter.

Hello Kitty Band-Aids
They make you feel better faster - it's scientifically proven! These are the only kind of Band-Aids I buy. I mainly use these so Bob won't steal my bandages, but he's been known to use them in a pinch.

Atonement
I finally finished it! Every time I would read it, I kept falling asleep. Not because it's exceptionally boring, but because there's just so much Woolfian description - pages and pages of it. I really did like it though, and I'd like to see the movie now. But I'm sort of scared, because I know it will make me cry! The book was sad enough, and once that soundtrack kicks in...I'll be a goner.

Reading: It Ain't So Bad

Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book

GREENWOOD, IN—"Instead of spending hours on YouTube every night, Mr. Meyer, unlike most healthy males, looks to books for gratification," said one psychologist.

I love this Onion article poking fun at the non-readers of the world. Sadly, I don't know very many people who read books for fun. The big excuse is "I don't have time," but if you have time to watch "The Hills" or eight hours of football on Sundays, you have time to read a book. Recently, I've been pretty much only reading nonfiction, but I'm reading Atonement right now, because I want to see the movie. I usually refuse to see movie adaptations of books until I read the book first, because once I see the film, I can't picture the characters in my own imagination anymore - I can only see the faces of the actors who starred in the movie.