It’s the offseason for carpenter Timothy Moore, a perfect time to catch up on his reading. At the Harlem Irving Plaza on Tuesday, Moore had a rather tattered paperback copy of “Sybil” in front of him. The book, published in 1973, was later made into a movie about a girl with multiple personalities.
Moore favors books over movies anyway.
“Your mind does better things,” he argued. “Have you ever read a book and gone to a movie and say it let me down? They can’t fit as much into a movie as a book.”
Moore, a carpenter by trade, came late to reading — “I never finished a book until I got out high school.”
Now, he might plow through one a day
Q. Favorite subjects?
A. I like history, true crime, biographies, newspapers.
Q. Newspapers?
A. Yeah, no kidding.
Q. Carpentry seems like a cool trade these days?
A. Once you do carpentry you learn parts of plumbing, electricity.
Q. You live close by?
A. Right down the street on Harlem. I can remember over 30 years ago before this mall, we used to ride our mini-bikes over here. It was just a Wieboldt’s back then and across the street a drive-in theater.
Q. Your father was a cop, mother a nurse…
A. My mother was raised in Wisconsin, my dad in Chicago — where do you think they met?
Q. I give up.
A. They met in Seattle, Washington. He was based in Alaska for the Korean War. She was stewardess … and back then you had to be a nurse.
Q. Social media?
A. I’m not interested in all this computer stuff. A kid [might] say “I’ve got 250 friends on Facebook.” You’d never recognize them if you met them in person. That’s the nice thing about Norridge. It still has a bocce [ball] park.
Q. Do you have a personal philosophy?
A. Tomorrow is always going to be a better day.
