Z: MOM! Are you reading this book (Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu) too?
K: Yes.
Z: What page are you on?
K: 20, I think; the part where her mom could be dead.
Z: I’m past that. She is.
K: Gee, thanks.
1/24/10
Z: What page are you on?
K: 104.
Z: Mom, you cheated. You read on Fri. & Sat.
K: (Not knowing she was caught up in a reading race.) It’s not my fault you don’t read during the weekends.
Z: I’m about to smoke you tonight!
1/25
Z: What page are you on? (He spent the ride to school reading and is about to get out of the car.)
K: (K glances down at his open book.) I think you have me beat. I’m still at 6:00pm. (Each chapter has a time instead of a title.)
Z: (Insanely satisfied.) I do! I just finished 6:00pm.
