Probably one of my greatest inventions is the book marathon. In a book marathon, you read one book of 245 pages or less a day for one hundred days; this takes about seven hours. Book marathons can and should have themes such as: Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, biography, ancient classics, mysteries, romances, general reading, etc., etc.. At the end of the one hundred days, you pick your favorite book of the one hundred and write a report about why it's your favorite book and then you reward yourself with a special event: either a night out on the town for two, a play, a movie, a vacation, a new diamond ring or other piece of jewelry or whatever.
How you note who is truly important around here on earth and who is merely self-important is to ask how many books that person has read and by whom. Babies that read books are important people, but babies that don't read books are not important! A child should have engaged in its first book marathon by the time it's closing out three years of age!
Shalom!
