Readin' up

Last week I caved and bought the Rough Guide to Chile. I was pretty much incapable of keeping myself away from the travel section of the World's Biggest Bookstore over at Edward and Yonge (I know, I know, it's owned by the Evil Book Behemoth *cough*Indigo*cough* but frankly there aren't any independent bookstores within a lunch-hour's radius of work, or anywhere near my home, and finding current editions of travel guides in used bookstores is a cute idea but just try it sometime). After spending several pre-Christmas lunches longingly browsing the offerings on the South American shelf, in my first week back I ceased pretending and just bought the damn thing. Now I'm reading it whenever my eyeballs need a break from obsessively plowing through the first few seasons of How I Met Your Mother. Soon I will actually have more than just a vague idea of what the country has to offer. Exciting!