Weekend Plans: Cancel Plans and Read

The invitations arrive with excellent intentions: dinner, drinks, brunch and a chance to behave like a sociable human being. Then the book gets interesting, the coffee is ready and every plan suddenly becomes negotiable.

Reading offers the perfect weekend compromise. You still get drama, arguments, dangerous decisions and emotional chaos, but none of it requires getting dressed or leaving the house. Better yet, the fictional people are almost guaranteed to have much bigger problems than you do.

So silence the phone, cancel the plans and settle in. The outside world will still be there after the final chapter.