Read the manual for the dresser you swore you’d build over the summer, now that you have so much more time.
If you could be the wife of an aviator, a time traveler, or a tiger, which would you choose, and why?
Skim the online recaps of all forty-four episodes of “Ozark.” How much of the viewing experience is lost by not actually watching a single episode? When you talk about it over lunch, can your co-workers tell?
Pore over an article about the new Marvel show. Do you agree with the author about how this show fits within the overarching Marvel Cinematic Universe? Share your pointed and scathing opinion in the comments section. Follow this up with a Twitter battle over the casting of the new Marvel feature film.
Read the first ten pages of “Beach Read.” Express your disappointment with the lack of sex scenes. Ask your friend Jackie to tell you when things start to get juicy, then skip to that section.
Finally agree to read your cousin’s screenplay. Is it just you, or does the plot feel a lot like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” only set in Victorian England?
Open your copy of Michelle Obama’s “Becoming.” Read the first chapter. How does it compare with the first time you read Chapter 1, more than a year ago? Close the book and outline a plan to re-read that same chapter, a year from now.