Take Me Out!

I used to read. I don't know what happened along the way but I just...stopped. Perhaps it was the lack of time or my severe television addiction but I can't tell you the last book I purchased and my last trip to the library was to use the computer to check my email and Facebook accounts.
A few weeks ago, one of my Aunt Kathys recommended I start reading Jen Lancaster's blog. I did and I immediately fell in love with her. I loved it so much that I dusted off my library card and headed to find some of her books.
It took me a while to find PS 3615 A54748 Z466 2007 in the stacks at the Warwick Public Library but, with the help of the computerized card catalog, I did it! I checked out Bright Lights, Big Ass A Self-Indulgent, Surly Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? and Pretty In Plaid A Memoir A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase.
My love for her started with the amazing titles of her books.
I started Bright Lights, Big Ass just this week and I have literally laughed out loud four times already...and I'm only on page 64.
As I was reading this evening, I turned the page and I found a surprise within the pages. A manufacturer's coupon for "any bag of Cooked Perfect meatballs". Save $1.00! I did what any single 31-year-old girl would do. I checked the expiration date. I've never eaten Cooked Perfect meatballs before but for $1.00 off I could be convinced to make that purchase. I mean, how bad could they be?!
Unfortunately for me and my taste buds, the coupon expired on 1/16/11. This not only saddened me because I couldn't save some cash during my next trip to Stop & Shop but it saddened me to think that this book hadn't been checked out of the library in close to a year. I can't believe it. I've been taken out more in the past year than this wonderful, smart, funny book.
Do people no longer read? Or is it just that people don't borrow books from the library any longer now that the Kindle and Nook have been introduced?
I don't know about you but I like actually flipping the pages of a book. I enjoy the smell of the pages. I get an adrenaline rush from the risk of getting a papercut.
I'll keep you posted on new items I find within the paperback book pages. Perhaps a winning lottery ticket is in my future!?!
I am thankful I'm back in the reading groove. Thanks, Aunt Kathy!