Okay, Suz, You Win

The Suz is over on facebook (Why do I keep posting about my facebook activity? Don't I have a three dimensional life anymore?) challenging her friends and pretty much everyone else she has ever known to join her on her Summer Reading Challenge. Basically, it means if we accept the challenge, we agree to read 50 pages a day from now until Labor Day. Has to be a book, though-- although, really, Suz, can't The New Yorker count? If Young Adult novels can count, why can't The New Yorker?

Because I am learning all the joys of e-book formatting, she's calling me our "expert" in this area, and I have designated that two Kindle pages equal one printed page, but this is a highly imperfect system. What's the conversion between hardcover and paperback? Trade paperback to mass-market paperback?

This is the trouble with us literary types. We're bad at the math involved.

But, the Suz wants this to become A Thing, so I'm passing it along. There are still a few friends we don't have in common.

And so tonight it begins. I'm starting with The Imperfectionists, which is about reporters at an English language newspaper in Rome. Perhaps it will give me a Good Idea or an Achievable Goal. If that's the case, my next read might be an Italian language text.