On New Year's Day, we decided to splurge and eat lunch out at our favorite Indian restaurant's buffet. I saw a young girl, maybe she was ten or eleven, seated at a table and she was reading an honest-to-goodness book in her lap. I couldn't see its cover and have no idea what it was or who wrote it. Harry Potter or some such YA, maybe. It came as a bit of a surprise. I just haven't seen anybody, much less a young person, reading a book in public for a while. Maybe she was being grounded and had her cell phone confiscated. But she appeared to be absorbed and entertained by the storyline. Just a passing observation, it's stuck with me.