No. 73: SIDNEY CROSBY / More like "Least Valuable." My library reading in Sid's backyard

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Then again, it always does.

NEVER SAY NEVER: These are words to live by, so I won’t say that I’ll never do another book reading in a library. If a publisher urges me to do one, I will try to beg off, citing the euthanizing of a beloved family pet, root canal or colonoscopy, occasions that I’d look forward to more longingly than a library reading. Likely, I’ll get guilted and suckered again, the rekindling of hope that one of these things has to someday work out.

Last week I detailed the tragicomedy of my trip to West Edmonton Mall where I sold and signed not a single …