Who Ruined Whose Best Chapter? And Which Brother Is Now the Vegan?

My younger son read a book — let’s just call it A Good Book for our purposes –and then encouraged my older son to read it.

My older son began the book and was reading it at his own pace. This got my younger son mad. He wanted him to read it faster. He told him that when one of his friends read it, “He was so excited that he even texted me when T*** died.”

“You idiot!” my older son said. “You just ruined the book for me! I can’t believe you did that!”

Did you ever ruin anyone’s best chapter? I ruined V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas for a friend. I didn’t mean to. I just mentioned how sad it was when *** did ***.

This post is an allegory — meaning it’s designed to teach us something else. And that something is this: We don’t know how anyone else’s chapter is going to unfold. We don’t know how and when it should unfold. Not in real life and not in the book they are reading.

Did you ever do this–and with what book? Did you ever have someone do this to you?

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Also, if you don’t like coffee, then don’t enter the free Starbucks Coffee Giveway on my blog post here. But if you do, then here’s your chance.