1. There is rarely a lot of sun where I live
2. When there is sun, I need to be in it
3. There is a relationship between sun exposure and number of books read, illustrated below
See how, when there's not a lot of sun, like in Winter say, book reading is high. Then, when sun exposure is really, really super high, like when you're on holidays in a hammock, book reading is high, but in the middle, when sun exposure is kind of middling, book reading suffers. That's where I'm at at the moment. All I can do in the sun right now, when it's shining, is drink cider and roll around in the grass. So.I did read one book, The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al-Aswany and while vaguely enjoyable it really was just a poor man's version of Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry, which is a freaking awesome, Raymond Carver-esque short story collection of untold brilliance. Alaa Al-Aswany's characters were a bit 2 dimensional and his style just wasn't the evocative genius of Mistry. That said, I did hear the dude interviewed on the BBC's World Book Club show and turns out he's actually a dentist, so you know, maybe I shouldn't have expected too much?
In other reading news, I'm completely addicted to reading The Economist and have taken out a subscription. This is complemented by my other dirty little addiction, an economics podcast from NPR called Planet Money. I've become completely fascinated by the idea of economics - HOW DOES IT WORK?!?! What is this mad crazy system of money that makes the world go round? Or not go round, as increasingly seems to be the case? And how in the name of God are all these chumps making arse-loads of money out of a system I don't understand but am completely beholden too? Anyway, I'm loving it. It's like reading takes from another world...
So. In short: I'm reading a really nerdy magazine, and there aren't any books on the horizon for about a month or so.
Yours, with apologies and cute graphs,
Princess Amber Margaret
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