I’m a bookie in more ways than one. People close to me know that.

In one sense I’m a football bookie because I run an NFL football pool. But I’m not really a bookie in that sense because I never take a cut of what’s betted. So that, I guess, is negated.

I’m a bookie because i’m such a bookworm. I don’t have many hobbies that ’stick’ other than reading. I’m a total bookie. There are a number of names for us…but I feel uncertain when I don’t have something to read.

So, me as a Bookie, read a great story, a 500 page novel, in three days. And as soon as I finished it, I was immendiately on Amazon ordering (two day shipping cost almost more than the book itself) the next in the series. I get obsessive.

But one thing that really shocked me tonight was talking about books to someone that I NEVER would have thought I would have a conversation about books with. My friend B said he was not much of a reader until her read the Harry Potter books. And now he’s almost a voracious reader!

Just who it came from really shocked me and I didn’t want to stop talking books and suggesting books to him.

And he’s down! The whole concept was unfathomable to me until tonight.

So I’m going to lend him some James Frey (if I haven’t loaned it to someone else at this point) because I think he’ll like it.

It makes me like this place a little bit more.