Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Media Connecticut Woman Reads a Book Every Day Because She Has Nothing Else To Do
Posted by Mike Conklin on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Sankovitch is a "former" environmental lawyer living in one of the richest neighborhoods in the country. She has four sons who range in age from 8 to 16 and are therefore presumably in school all day, and she has someone come clean her house once every two weeks. The biggest sacrifices she's had to make in order to stick to her plan? Get your tissues ready:
Still, to make this work she’s cut out a lot — the garden, The New Yorker, wasting time online, ambitious cooking, clothes shopping, coffee with friends.
Omigod, you're right, New York Times, that is a lot! But perhaps next time you could profile a middle-class woman with four sons and a job who manages to read a book every few weeks. Would be far more impressive.
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You know, she actually has very good taste. I'm not saying those are the 365 books I would read in a year if I had no responsibilities--mine would, of course, be much cooler and better--but one could do worse.
"At an average of five books a week, not counting all those sighed at and nibbled on before they go to the Strand, I will read 13,000. Then I'm dead. Thirteen thousand in a lifetime, about as many as there are new ones published every month in this country." -The late John Leonard. Somehow this seemd apropos.
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