The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown
{ 2003 | Doubleday | 454 pgs }

The other night I spent 5 hours reading The Da Vinci Code for part of the Countdown Challenge I didn’t finish on time. Here is a partial list of other things I could have done instead:

• slept
• baked, decorated, and eaten a cake
• sifted through the neighbors’ trash
• composed a sonnet
• unraveled the blanket I’ve been crocheting
• made a paper mache house out of 454 pages of…some book
• completed my giant crossword
• crashed pots to make the Bwun wake up
• listen to the Bwun scream for 5 hours
• read the remaining 8 chapters of my Social Psychology book
• done a headstand
• walked on hot coals…in the backyard?
• hiked the Y alone at night
• scrubbed the bathroom floor
• caught up on the Romgi’s law school reading
• counted the perforations in our ugly laminate wall
• memorized pi to 100 digits
• hitchhiked to St. George
• played Wind Waker through again –

– ok, that was heartbreaking. Yes, it’s true, rather than play my favorite game I voluntarily read The Da Vinci Code in its entirety.

My apologies to Nintendo. It’s a sin I won’t commit again.