What's on your nightstand?

[Ozme52]

I only have a handful of books I rate a 10. These are the only books I would ever read a second time. For me, a book rated 10 will have a language all its own. It will make me think. It will make me read passages three and four times just because it's a pleasure to read aloud. It will give me an "A HA" moment in the middle or the end. It will leave me breathless and unwilling to to pick up start another book until I've fully savored it.

I envy that. I read voraciously and absorb the thoughts in huge hunks. It's very rare that I take the time to savor the individual words... but then there are very few 'aha' moments in what I choose to read as entertainment.

Then again, I think I take all the ideas and reformulate them to my own needs. They all sit there as background to my ponderings.

But I do have an affinity for irony... and that rare bit of laugh-out-loud humor you occassionally find within.