As if peace in Syria and a nuke-free Iran are not enough on
your plate there is the problem of not remembering what you’ve read.
Have you gone
to the library and found a book by one of your favorite authors only to realize
after you take it home and read twenty pages that you have read this book
before? Well, my wife recently gave me a solution for that. It is so simple in
its conception and execution that I may nominate her to be on the team
struggling with the Syria and Iran issues. She has selected a page in every
book she reads and when she finishes she circles the page number and returns
the book. The page is always the same. When browsing the library weeks or
months later she finds a book she will enjoy she checks the page number and if it
circled she knows she has read it and moves on. I am now doing this and have chosen
a page number which means something special in my life so it is easy to
remember. If you pick up a book in the library and find two page numbers
circled, it is a pretty good conclusion that Joyce and Archie have read the
book.
