I have a half dozen posts started and lingering unfinished -- including my top ten reads of 2017 post -- but work and home life (including a string of minor-but-expensive home dramas) has been enough to keep me from having enough brain cells to finish a post. The 24 in 48 Readathon is this last weekend in January and I'm so looking forward to it. You only (ha, "only") have to read for 24 hours within a 48-hour period, and I'm hoping to scrape out that time, even if it means staying up all night in the living room. I'm so behind on my 2018 reading (basically just dragging my feet through Things Fall Apart ) and I'm looking forward to being able to spread out some books around me and start 'em all until something sticks. In the readathon queue are: Toni Morrison's Beloved , Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists , and Middlemarch . I actually have about ten thousand books jostling for my attention and for once, I'm actually overwhelmed by my