The 'It Made Me Miss My Subway Stop' award

Every once in a while (more often than really is appropriate, but not what you could call frequently), I look up from what I'm reading in the subway to discover that I've missed my stop. Sometimes I've even missed two stops.

Anyway, as I rolled into Times Square on the downtown 1 train Monday morning (I was supposed to get off at 50th Street), it occurred to me that I ought to give public praise to the reading material engrossing enough to make me forget I was on the subway.

And so the first winner of the It Made Me Miss My Subway Stop award is ...

Jonathan Cohn's Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price

in particular Chapter 3, about the history of HMOs and the mean things some HMO did to a nice couple in suburban Austin.