If only reading Cooking Light or Food Rules could make me slim, Parents magazine and What to Expect: The Toddler Years could make me a model parent, and Real Simple and Financial Peace could make those things so. I'm an English professor which makes me a professional reader. I can read anything. Can I act on what I read? Not so much. I'll post on many things -- eating healthier, parenthood, writing, reading, Twittering, thinking. But mostly this is the story of my attempt to live the life that my books imagine, to be the person I want to be.