I worked in a library, which meant the whole town basically paid me to read during my breaks. I don't suppose you'll be sniffling for me either :-)
Not necessarily. Check out this tidbit in Slate about Newsday's review of Clinton's "My Lies:
Novelist Francine Prose spent 12 hours reading My Life—"The first 200 pages very carefully"—and a few hours at the keyboard composing her Newsday review. "It's the sort of book that's writing the review in your head while you're reading," she says....Prose agreed to write the instant review in part because the paper offered a premium rate—which she won't confide.
But her main motivation was the opportunity to write something political. "I knew that regardless of the literary merits of the book, the human being that was going to appear from those pages would be superior to the people in the current administration," Prose says.
So she got paid big bucks for her review, even though she admits she didn't really read the whole thing. And she got to slam the Bush Administration at the same time. What a deal!
I worked in a library, which meant the whole town basically paid me to read during my breaks. I don't suppose you'll be sniffling for me either :-)
Nope, I won't! Reading isn't exactly working in a coal mine! ;)