So the book club selection, this go-around, is Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences. I've flipped through it, and have fallen into an essay or two--they are brief and lovely and luscious and make me long for the days when smoking was glamorous and exercise wasn't heart-healthy and chocolate wasn't full of antioxidants but just a pure, absolute pleasure.

Anonymous commenter says: Give us more time to buy the book! We say: No! Just kidding. We say: of course! You've got a week, now, to grab this from your local library, order it online or find it at your local bookstore--it's worth looking for, I think. And then next Wednesday, we'll talk in earnest about your renewed sense of pleasure in the little indulgences of life.