Take a look, it's in a book! Reading Rainboooow.

Butterfly in the skyyy....I can go twice as high..

I'm pretty sure my love of reading began with watching
'Reading Rainbow' on PBS. We only got 4 channels in
my house so it was either that or 'The Young & the Restless'.

I have always loved to read and it's frightening how the
young people of today say they only read maybe one book
every year. Really..I took a poll in one of college classes.
One book a year. That is pathetic.

I watch TV. I go out and do things. But I still have time to read!
I shell out 50 clams every time I go into a Borders. I'm that aunt
who always buys books as gifts. I think I could literally
die (DIE!) if I could never read again.

Everyone should read. Even if it's comic books or the
friggin' TV guide! As part of my crusade to get more
people to pick up a book, I'm going to post about each
and every book that I have the pleasure of perusing.
And I usually read anywhere between 4 to 7 books a month.
So get your read on people!


Today's Selection is....
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman.

This book is set in a small town in North Dakota. You follow 3 main characters
throughout the book. Mitch, a high school student, Horace, an old dude that
drinks coffee and reminisces about the good ole days, and Julia, a big city girl
(All the way from Minneapolis!) who starts her first year teaching in this small podunk town.

As a person who comes from a small town where everybody
knows your 'biznass', this book was on par with the kind
of shenanigans that I have been privy to. Lots of funny stories
about the crazy characters that make up this small town pepper the
pages of this book. There is also a chapter where Mitch, during an English test, compares living life in a small town to George Orwell's 1984. This part was eerily hard to disagree with. If you've ever lived in a small town you know that potentially everyone is Big Brother.

Downtown Owl is a good quick read that will make you think
about...what does being normal really mean? And aren't people
everywhere, small town or big city, really just the same?
Check it out and tell me what you think.