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The Reading List

Tuesday
9:40–9:45 A.M. Home office 2 e-mails
9:45–9:50 Yahoo News, “Hopes for Recovery in New Orleans”
10:15–10:20 Yahoo News, “Roberts: Precedent Important for Abortion”
11:50–noon 3 e-mails
4–4:05 P.M. GoCARD offices Elle Décor, “People Now: Tord Boontje,” 2 pages—“GoCard distributes our guidebooks”
7:30–8:50 The bar at Good World Business 2.0, “Shop Talk,” “Mining Blogs for Marketing Insight,” “Tricks of the Trader,” “A Truly Sticky App,” “How Adobe Is Pushing Quark off the Page,” “Brewing Success From Failure,” “Thinking Outside the Shoe Box,” 12 pages—“I started my company a year ago, and I don’t have a business degree”

Wednesday
10:30–10:35 A.M. Friend’s apartment Business 2.0, “The Perfect Pitch”
11:20–11:35 Landscape Cafe The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, 20 pages
12:55–1:10 P.M. Home office 3 e-mails
1:10–1:12 WebMD.com, “Broken Toe”— “I ran into a metal filing cabinet”
1:12–1:17 LeMonde.fr, “Une série d’attentats à Bagdad a fait plus de 130 morts”—“I’m half French”
2–4:04 On the couch The Things They Carried, 89 pages
8:30–9:24 The Things They Carried, 40 pages
11:25–11:52 In bed The Things They Carried, 32 pages

Thursday
9:22–9:58 A.M. Phoebe’s Cafe The Things They Carried, 29 pages
11:20–11:30 Home office 4 e-mails
6:42–7:30 P.M. Kitchen Kitchen for Kids, by Jennifer Low, “Chocolate Chip Cookies” recipe—“Amazing”
11:34–12:03 A.M. In bed Histoires inédites du petit Nicolas, by Goscinny & Sempé, 39 pages— “I like artistic comic books”

Friday
10:30–11:10 A.M. Phoebe’s Cafe Elle Décor UK, “Atelier LZC,” “The New Pretty,” “Home Work,” 31 pages
Noon–12:10 P.M. Home office 4 e-mails

Saturday

11:05–11:40 A.M. Kitchen The New York Times Magazine, “Building Stories: Part 1,” “Sideline Acrobats,” 8 pages T: The New York Times Style Magazine, “Short Story,” “The Originals,” 4 pages
3:20–4 P.M. McCarren Park Vanity Fair, “Just Curious: The Journey of George’s Creators,” “A Matter of Life and Death,” 11 pages

Sunday
7:10–7:40 P.M. Employees Only restaurant French Home Cooking Adapted to the Use of American Households, by Berthe Julienne Low, 10 pages— “I found it at Bonnie Slotnick’s in the Village. It’s an old, old cookbook. I love the way it’s typeset.”