Dan recommends:
Just read Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee. Very good! It is about a man who gets his leg amputated after a fateful bike-riding incident and how he deals with his infatuation with the nurse that cares for him at his home. Crazy stuff. Somewhat dark, but still very interesting.
And as far as eating goes, on my Birthday I was given a cake, a tray of cupcakes and cookies! 
