Hi! I’m reading “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” by Aimee Bender. She’s the author who did the collection of short stories called “Girl in the Flammable Skirt,” which was really well-received. I’m only through the prologue and chapter one right now, but I love the main character (a 20-year-old woman with OCD who uses the beauty of numbers and mathematical formulas to keep herself sane).

I also just bough “Micro Fiction,” a collection of short shorts; “The Freedom Writer’s Diary,” about students writing to change their world; “How to be an Adult,” by David Richo; “An Unquiet Mind,” about a woman’s journey with manic depression (yes, you are detecting a theme here); and “Feng Shui for Dummies,” which I hope will make all the other self-help books I bought useless in my world.

Ha ha!