Currently reading Byzantium by Judith Herrin,  The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.  Listening to Reamde, the new one by Neal Stephenson.   I’m really enjoying every single one of them.  But I have other things to do,  like cook soup and walk and shop and talk and go to eat with friends, do email, and more email –  and Christmas is coming so  things are busy.

But I read –

and read …