"If today were the day you had to stop dancing, how would you feel.....?"

Hahahaha. Oh, Q1 2015, you have not gone well list-wise. Not even remotely. I'm starting to realize that this year may be the first year since 2009 where I fail to read at least 100 books. Ouch. It's early days and it's not too late to get back on track, but we are seriously off track. We are hiking in the wilderness; we, like, got a training from those "leave no trace" people because we are sooooooooooo far off any recognizable path.

Now, then, where exactly do we stand? Aside from at the foot of the "now you have to read so many more books each quarter if you want to catch up" mountain, I mean. As should be pretty obvious, each quarter I aim to read 25 books. This quarter I squeaked in at 20. Like, seriously under the wire with 20. I realized on Sunday that I was at 17, flipped out, and read like a fiend, and I still am failing. Le sigh.

This makes it a particularly poor time to decide to read A Dance to the Music of Time, but I found a cheap set in a used bookstore recently, and, what can I say, I'm nothing if not insane and self-defeating. I'm aiming to read them during our up coming trip to AZ.

If, like me, you are struggling to fit in reading this year, may I recommend this helpful summary of 12 novels? I think, though I'm not totally sure, that my favorite is:

“Let’s go back to Brideshead,” she said.
“Oh, what a good idea.”
It really was a good idea. They had a wonderful time revisiting Brideshead.
– Brideshead Revisited