On Monday night, we told ourselves we were going to do the following: Waste 30 bucks on a useless item for an extended-family grab bag, stop by the Verizon store, clean the bathroom, and wrap three presents.

Instead we went home, planted ourselves on the couch, and stayed up until 2 a.m. reading a book we grabbed from the office freebie pile.

All told, we’re pretty sure we made the appropriate decision…because Still Alice by local writer Lisa Genova is great. (more…)