I've been able to finally sit down with this book and read. Lately with the craziness of my summer, reading has been the last thing on my mind, other than the reading I do for my summer classes...

First of all, I want to say that I am enjoying the art of the book. When I bought my copy at B&N I thought it was neat that the dog was cut-out on the front cover, and that the inside panel was a starry, colorful page with the traditional snippets of reviews laid out nicely. An attractive book is never a bad, thing, although I typically adhere strictly to the adage about judging by covers.

I was struck by the number of the "first" chapter--2. "Two," I thought. "But this is the first chapter..." *shrug* I turned the pages without any trouble. A book is a book is a book, whether the first chapter is "2" or "157" (which is also a chapter in the book because they are all prime numbers).

Before I got very far in the book, I realized that the numeric value of the chapters was growing much quicker than the number of pages. This is usually reversed. Pagination (thankfully NOT in prime numbers, because then I would be really confused...) is not something I pay much attention to unless I'm making notes. Scribbling a phrase or topic I want to remember with a little "p.#" is a habit I've made with the assistance of a large rainbow cube of Post-its. Sometimes I'll write the chapter and page number, but today as I wrote "ch. 31, p.16" I was confused for a millisecond. I guess that's something I'm not used to, that's all.

Oh, more about those perfectly pasted Post-its... (Sidenote: Wow, do I love Post-its.) It's a habit I formed early in my academic reading endeavors. When I didn't want to tote around my notebook with my lit. book, I'd stick a little stack of maybe ten or twenty sticky notes in the back of my book. The best thing about them is that you can put them on the pages as-is, rip them for little tags, use different colors to systematically dialogue what you need to remember...

Okay, so I get a little obsessive about the Post-it thing :-)

But just having little slips of paper handy makes my reading easier (I prefer the sticky paper because if I clumsily drop my book they won't scatter). When it's for class I make lists or reference possible themes... but anymore all I jot down are blogging topics, things of personal interest, and stuff that I think is purely and uniquely stated and worth remembering.

I got to about page 40 before I had to get back to my take-home math test :-/ (This week is mid-term for the rest of my classes, so I don't know how much I'll get to read this week, either! At least I'll be done with my math class this Thursday.)

But I already tore up three Post-its--one green, two pink--and I have two more pink ones stuck to the inside cover decorated with my sloppy script. Off to a good start...