Today is Do Nothing But Read Day, a suggestion started by a grad student at UW Madison, Amanda Lanyon-LaSage, that gained a much wider audience after she appeared on Joy Cardin’s WPR talk show on Friday evening.

Now that’s a holiday I can get behind. I spent the afternoon just as she suggested, curled up on the sofa with a cat on my lap and a freshly-brewed cup of tea by my side and finished up reading My War by Andy Rooney.