We take our lunch in liquid form

Busy days call for speed lunches, usually in liquid form. And with that freak heatwave that hit us late last week anything in cold liquid form will do just fine. Jamba Juice to the rescue! While waiting for my mango-a-gogo I borrow a pen from my co-worker and slink out the door to talk to Chantel. She's reading Winged Creatures by Roy Freirich, a book she bought on a whim with no prior knowledge about it from Book Soup on the Sunset Strip. She's just a handful of pages into it but from what she can decipher the book is about a robbery and there are different storylines that look like they may intertwine later on.



Chantel prefers reading fiction and tells me her favourite book so far is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the same author of Kite Runner.
Growing up she enjoyed reading the classics like Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I tell her how I didn't start reading those books until just recently because I somehow managed to avoid all those adolescent givens. Chantel shares the same feeling because she realised that she never read 1984 or Catch-22 and just recently purchased them so that she can cross these reads off her list.

She's not working right now so she is taking advantage of this time to catch up on her pleasure reading. She just finished Law School @ Rutgers in New Jersey and recently took the Bar exam (she finds out the results around Thanksgiving). She's originally from Philadelphia but moved here in May.

If she were to write a book of her own? Tough question. It wouldn't be an autobiography, at least not right now. She would want to write about travel seeing as she travels alot. She shares that her mother is from Europe so she visited the Old World often when she was younger. Perhaps she will use this free time to pay another visit.



What book have you been meaning to read but haven't had a chance to get to it yet? Is there a reason why?

I personally have been meaning to read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It was left to me by a guy I used to date. It is his favourite book and he wanted me to read it so that we could discuss it over poached eggs and coffee. We parted ways before I ever got to the book and like an old flame's shirt the book has become a POW. The sheer size of the book intimidates me but since this book ain't going anywhere so I've got all the time in the world 'til I feel like tackling it. I also feel like I should read it soon as an homage to the late Wallace. But first I've got to get through my 2 current books :)