Daily Lit Blogfest

So you've signed up at DailyLit so you, too, can join the rest of us in reading on the installment plan. What did you choose and why? Tell us about it and link here (also helping me try out the wiki thing). Don't be shy. Because if you're shy then I'll be all embarrassed and stuff to have this empty wiki sitting here bare and exposed to the world. It's like one of my recurring nightmares- inviting people to a party and nobody comes. And that's almost as bad as the one where you dream you are out in public when you suddenly realize you are in your underwear (if you're lucky) and it's only a matter of time before everybody else notices. You wouldn't do that to me, would you? I didn't think so.

Here's what I chose:
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine: Er, because it was short, and because I wanted to read it again.
On the Origin of Species - Because it's been on my 'TBR' list for a while.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day- The title sounded interesting, and it was short.
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford- I have had FMF on my TBR list for two years now, anything by him, since reading up on the 20th century and finding him on nearly everybody's important 20th century authors list. Sadly, that was the first time I remember hearing of him.
Walden, by Thoreau, because Pipsqueak and Jenny are reading this for school right now.

Click on the link below and add your name and the URL to the post where you've explained what you chose and why. Because you love me too much to see me all humiliated, and besides, the whining and pleading is getting embarrassing and somebody needs to make it stop already.