Wouldn’t it be nice to curl up with a good book right about now? If you use the Kindle ebook platform, you can pick up one of my all-time favorite novels on sale right now for just $1.99. It’s The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, and you can get it at Amazon for barely any money at all. It tells the story of a father and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic America that’s been scorched of nearly all other life. McCarthy is known for having dense, poetic prose, but he’s at his most readable in The Road. The book is comprised of many short sections, often just a paragraph long, with plenty of white space between each one. Here’s a scene-setting excerpt from near the beginning: “With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. Barren, silent, godless. He thought the month was October but he wasnt su