I'm reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith right now. So far it's good, but it's one hell of a long book and really it's only because we don't have a TV or internet to keep me otherwise distracted. Still, it's a good book and I think I'm sufficiently hooked to read through to the end regardless of the TV/internet situation.
In the beginning of the book, before the first chapter, is a quote I really like- it could be misinterpreted to mean that we should be paranoid about our actions but I read it as take note of little things and opportunities in your life, for the little things that happen to you (or that you choose to ignore) could actually hold the weight of the world.
"Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever."
- Where Angels Fear To Tread, E.M. Forster
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