New grain & reading-holic!

Hi everyone, how was your Monday? productive? I hope so, it's supposed to be productive, right? But mine was not productive at all in term of work, but yes in term of leisure readings. I spent the morning doing errands, filling out thousands of forms for my summer intern (hate this!), worked 3 hours in the afternoon (fighting with sleepiness) and then read read read, I finished both: Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story, The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed.
The diabetes one wasn't as good as I expected (very general ideas and too much talk, not enough info) and Lang Lang's biography was great! It was my first time reading a biography, never really understand why should I be interested in someone else life story. But I was so wrong, it's sooooo interesting and mind opening. I learned so much and confirmed once again that success does not fall from the sky, you have to work for it. You could be a genius, but if you don't work hard, you will never success.
After finished these books, I ordered 3 more books on amazon and I want them to arrive right now!!! I crave reading!!! Have you ever experienced this kind of craving?

Now food, which was not bad.
breakfast: new grain!!! AMARANTH: high in protein, calcium, and iron. The combo:

• 1/4 c. dry amaranth
• 1/2 c. almond breeze
• 1/2 chopped apple
• 1/4 c. ricotta
• vanilla
• homemade Almond Butter.

Together with the other half of the apple. It was a very interesting grain, so tiny, I could taste each of these little balls. It's not as creamy as oats/oatbran, it's more like millet/couscous, so if you want to get some creaminess, you might want to add some oatbran.
AM snack packed to school: cereal bar and chocolate from Arg.Lunch: a super plate of poached egg whites over smoked salmon, leftover barley risotto and steamed broccoli slaw.I was sooooo stuffed when I finished so I had a tiny piece of the ricotta cheesecake.Later in the afternoon I had another chocolate from Arg that I store them in a cute box from Paris.Before I went to gym for some magazine reading, I had 1/2 of each of these bars. The right one is from Arg (see how small are they compared to Americans?)For dinner I made stir-fry with mushrooms, spinach, eggplant, tofu and tomatoes, seasoned with soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, sesame seeds and sesame oil.And two squares of the dill cornbread.Yummy~~
Dessert: fungus soup (black and white fungus) with Chinese dates.Question: Do you like reading biographies? What was the one you liked most?