Sorry for not writing much here.  I am sapped of energy and just haven't felt up to it.  I have to go back to the doctor tomorrow so I am scared.  This little news report has me even more scared.  I find it ironic that I had to find it on The Guardian.

One in four Americans read no books last year
AP
Wednesday August 22, 2007

A
quarter of US adults say they read no books at all in the past year,
according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. The typical person claimed
to have read four books in the last year and, excluding those who had
not read any books at all, the usual number of books read was seven.