The Suz's Summer Reading Challenge: Progress Report 1

I have a bit of a reading problem, and the Kindle has exacerbated that. I see a book review, or, just as likely, I see an interview with an author on The Daily Show, and I race to the Kindle or to Amazon to download it.

Which is how I ended up with Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. Jon Stewart interviews this guy on Monday, and by Thursday night, I've finished his book. This 50 page a day thing is marvelously efficient.

And it puts me 288 pages into the challenge, plus another 50 or so in The Imperfectionists, to which I will return later tonight to make today's page count.

In other good news, I'm pretty sure I'm not a psychopath. Evidence (this blog for a start) would indicate that I have some narcissistic tendencies, but no psychopathy. I've got empathy and anxiety to spare.

Ronson writes near the end: "There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things."