If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. 

 ~Sherri Chasin Calvo 

--- Love this, reminds me of all the moments I've been startled dizzy upon hearing an unexpected voice or sound entering the realm I lose myself to when I'm entirely engrossed in a book.  I am reading White Oleander by Janet Fitch at the moment, an Oprah Book Club selection - it is dripping with literary enticement.  I'm only six, or is it seven chapters in and already it has reached 'a favourite' status.