Mount To-Be-Read

As any serious reader out there will know, there's never enough time to get through all the books you want to read. I tend to hoard anything that looks vaguely interesting with the honest intention of reading it later, but in the end the books just pile up and pile up as newer, even more interesting stuff gets added to the list. A friend of mine was spot-on when she once called this towering pile "Mount To-Be-Read"...

 

My situation has actually worsened now that I've got a new job that's closer to home. Rather than the leisurely train journey that I used to take each day, my new commute only takes me half an hour each way. I've barely settled into what I'm reading before it's time to put the book away. It's gotten so bad that I actually tried getting up an hour earlier today so that I could have some blissfully quiet reading time to myself in the morning with a cup of tea. I was initially quite chuffed at coming up with such an elegantly simple solution, but as soon as the alarm went off at 6am this morning I just hurled the bloody thing across the room and went back to sleep until the slightly more civilised hour of 7am...