I see book covers all over the place here, which I find very cool and somehow satisfying. Reading from a book with a brown paper cover reminds me of elementary school. For this reason, and also because foreign books are ridiculously expensive ($25 for a paperback!), I decided to cover the book I bought yesterday.

And what book is it? Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, which feels like such a treat. I've been reading so much classic literature lately because that's the easiest to find at the library here that reading something outside the canon is something special. So special it deserves its own book cover decorated with origami paper from Kyoto.