My friend "F" had a very amusing sighting on the uptown 6 the other day: A gentleman in his 60s, with a well-groomed mustache and goatee ("F" thought he looked like a psychiatrist) was reading A Mind of Its Own by David Friedman. Subtitle: A Cultural History of the Penis.
A rather portly guy in his 50s with a florid complexion was reading The Hero's Farewell: What Happens When CEOs Retire, by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
A little girl about eight years old was wearing brightly-flowered rain boots and reading The Problem Child, which a search on Amazon revealed to be the third in the "Sisters Grimm" series by Michael Buckley and Peter Ferguson.
Oh I love these posts! Presumably the CEO book was written pre-financial crisis as most of the CEO's who have retired recently (here anyway) have had to run for their lives with their ill-gotten gains or slunk away in ignominy!
As for the first - I wonder which shelf the bookshops put it on?
Posted by: Liz F | December 03, 2010 at 07:26 AM
Hi LizF: I KNOW!! When is the last time anybody thought of a CEO as a "hero"? I checked, and this book is from the early 1990s, so that explains a lot . . .
Posted by: Karen | December 03, 2010 at 08:39 AM