Another Friday, Another Weekend Read

The staycation applies to weekends in its own fiscally conservative way.

As your funds have decreased, you've discovered the joy of staying at home on a Friday night.

Ticket prices for the films are a bit beyond your reach, but you can't sit and stare at the four walls all night without going mad. Some form of entertainment is still required.

Dinner out? Who can afford much beyond fish and chips, and the smallest portion at that. But all that grease isn't healthy and you know it.

The locavore movement fits right in, what with that cooker of yours going unused and we all have to eat. Compared to restaurant dining, it's economical to prepare a meal at home. We're all looking to avoid horsemeat on our plates, right, so you can't miss if you buy a chicken from the butcher and see that it's a real chicken.

What to do with the rest of the evening?

Reading has always been a cheap form of entertainment. Even the poorest wretch can escape the misery of poverty in the pages of a book. You can forget that you're stuck at home if your mind is fully engaged in a novel that transports you to another time and place.

You could order a copy of THE KING OF THE IRISH and wait for delivery, but it's Friday already and you want to delve into the murky world of Chicago politics and Irish nationalism, dive into the muck that arose when the sons of immigrants tried to export rebellion to the auld sod.

THE KING OF THE IRISH could be yours in digital format, right now. You can download it to any e-reader you might own. You could download it to your computer.

Take the plunge. Once you've begun reading about Daniel Coughlin, the Chicago police detective whose ambition brought him to the edge of the gallows, you won't stop until you've reached the end.