As luxurious as... what??

Ha! Okay, a toast then...

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I propose that you drink a toast to Virgo actress Sophia Loren, who has been in 100 movies during her long career. To do so may help you take maximum advantage of this phase of your astrological cycle, when your instinct for creating abundance and longevity is at a peak. Are you game? Say this: "May the spirit of Sophia Loren come to me in my dreams and reveal her secret of enduring success." I suggest you also visualize Loren's 40th birthday, when her husband gave her a custom-made, 14-karat-gold toilet seat. Then drink a toast to yourself, saying: "As compensation for all the times that fate has kicked my ass over the years, may I now receive a reward that's as luxurious as Sophia Loren's magic toilet seat."

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Summer reading

I have about 80 pages left to go in Middlesex and could have stayed up reading it into the night last night except that my eyes were already tired from working at my computer all day. I recently reached a crucial, pivotal stage in the story, which means I don’t leave it entirely when I put it down. It stays with me, unsettling my dreams at night and making me feel during the day like I’ve forgotten something, like I had a conversation with a friend interrupted and I need to call her back. But this also helps me pick it up and get right back into it – say, a few pages while eating my lunch or a few paragraphs during commercial breaks in my telenovela. I think I’ll miss it when I’m done.

So what to start after this? I have a copy of The Lovely Bones I’m planning to read. I also want to read The Prince of Providence. Any suggestions? What’s on your summer reading list? Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction for summer reading? Light reading or heavy? Or is it any different during the summer from the rest of the year?

Update:

Yikes! The New Yorker summer fiction issue just arrived. I guess that solves that problem!

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