365 Days and a Book to be Read for Each One of Them

What would you expect a woman staring into a book and sitting on the toilet to do all day?

If you thought, read, you're right.

But Nina Sankovitch doesn't just read the paper or a novel picked by Oprah. Oh no, she reads one book a day. That's seven books in one week. One. Book. A. Day. And she has for the past 11 months.

How about that? Sankovitch, profiled in the New York Times, decided to begin her quest of reading one book a day for 365 days, to make sense, she says in the piece, of her sister's death, noting that she "...always thought great literature is all one needs to read to understand human psychology, emotions, even history."

For someone for whose book adventure will finish October 28, it has been quite the study of all of the above.

Before you go criticizing yourself as to why you don't put down the damn remote and start reading already, or why can't the kids make their own dinner, this was just what she needed to do, and because she could (her husband works and the kids, all three of them, are steeped in the family tradition as well, so it's not as if she's out on her own limb here).

It is an unusual objective, but it took only that to turn Julie Powell, home cook and blogger, into author and inspiration for the movie "Julie and Julia." So see, you just never know do you?

Photo: Sanja Genero@sxc.hu