April 5, Saturday afternoon -- Reading Paulo Coelho

Reading The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, a book that so many people have told me was their favorite, but which I have never, after over 1,000 photos, seen being read. But, here it is.

Her roommate's girlfriend was reading it and she got it next.

Her favorite book of all time--Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. She read it a few years ago and really liked how the characters get to you.

Something good she's read recently--One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus. There was another book, too, but I can't remember what it was.

When she was a child she remembers liking Witch Baby, by Francesca Lia Block and Watership Down, by Richard Adams.

If she were to write her own book? She grimaces (like most people grimace when I ask that question...but her grimace was better than most. A true look of agony.)

Have you ever see The Alchemist being read in public? My sister thinks that I never see it being read because maybe it's a book that people like to read at home. Or, is it because it's so short that the time spent reading makes the chances smaller? Or, is it because it's been out for ten years?