Super Freaky

She's all right, she's all right, that girls all right with me, yeah, he-he-he
She's a super freak, super freak, she's super freaky, yeow
Everybody sing, super freak, super freak

excerpt from Super Freak (1981), Rick James

I’m certain the authors of the bestseller Freakonomics were engaging in a bit of wordplay with their follow-up effort. It’s funny to me that they chose to pun the title of Rick James’s ode to an unencumbered lady friend.

This book was a fast (innuendo intended) read. It was much like the first book, only freakier. (Well, not really.) Its significance for me lies outside of its content—it marks the first book of what I hope is many this year, the first I received electronically from the library, and the first I read on my iPhone. (Yes, you read that correctly. I don’t own an iPad, and I’m apparently not technologically savvy enough to download e-books onto my Kindle, and so I’m stuck reading my library’s e-books on my Kindle apps—but not on the Kindle itself.)

(Note: I’m glad to have a book done one day into the new year, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up this 366-books-in-2012 pace.)