Brooklyn Woman Will Read Eat Pray Love To Lull You To Sleep, If You So Desire

If you're anything like me, you regularly resolve to read more before bed - and then just as regularly fall prey to Jon Stewart, a comfortable pillow or the crushing exhaustion of daily life in New York City. Well, good news for us! Just like everything else in Brooklyn, we can have our reading delivered.

Brooklyn-based artist Madhu Kaza will come to your house and read to you a book of your choosing until you fall asleep. And yes, you are expected to fall asleep because one thing she requires that she be able to leave on her own and lock the door behind her. The artist says this is an exercise in trust. For me it would be more of an exercise in awkwardness and I'd likely pretend to be asleep just in order to cut it short. 

I was curious though whether any of my friends would be interested in this sort of ... um... service (?) and sent an informal poll asking what book they would want to be read. The answers were illuminating  - in that they suggest that the project might be more successful anywhere but Brooklyn. Nearly all of the people I asked outside of the borough came back with sincere responses ("Phantom Tollbooth," "The BFG," "For Whom The Bell Tolls") while nearly all of my Brooklyn based friends responded with snarky answers ("Das Kapital," "Crime and Punishment - slowly and with gusto," "Eat, Pray, Love," "Is Penthouse Forum a book?"). There were also three votes for "Go the Fuck to Sleep," but the author is Brooklyn-based, so we'll call that sincere.  But perhaps the most "Brooklyn" answer I got was this: "my own book manuscript to make sure it makes sense." I wonder how many such requests she's gotten thus far...