the novel plan

Not only did I check out a novel

before leaving town,

I also purchased a couple of used paperbacks

from the library.

They were considered 'large'

so I had to fork over fifty cents each

instead of the 25 cents per book I thought I was paying.

Would you laugh if you knew I had 3 books

but put one back once I found out the new price?

I did.

Anyways.

3 works of fiction!

I wasn't sure which one to read

so I settled on the sofa

with my bum foot propped on the footstool

and set a timer for 8 minutes.

I was going to do 10,

but then that would equal a whole half hour

by the time I was finished

and that just seemed exorbitant.

The thinking was,

I'd give each book 8 minutes

and then,

whichever book I had the hardest time setting aside

would be the book I'd read.

I didn't have a hard time setting any of them aside.

So there went my fiction reading...