Title of book(s) read this hour: The Rose and the Ring – William Makepeace Thackeray, A Game of Thrones – George R R Martin
Number of books read since you started: 2 (Travels in the Scriptorium – Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring – William Makepeace Thackeray)
Pages read: 49
Running total of pages read since you started: 388
Amount of time spent reading: 32 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 3 hrs 44 mins
Cups of tea/coffee: 1 cup of tea

I love Thackeray to tiny little pieces. He’s so clever and funny and his illustrations crack me up. The Rose and the Ring has nothing on Vanity Fair, of course, but it’s still an entertaining book. I must admit to a smallish crush on Giglio, to be honest. Again, he has nothing on Dobbin, but then there are degrees of awesome.

It’s getting late here (it’s past midnight now), so I’m going to take a break—to sleep and to watch the latest episode of Doctor Who (I am hopelessly addicted to new Who, and that’s a fact!). I’ll be back in six hours or so. I wish I could stay up all night reading, but I start work again on Monday and I need to be wellrested then, which is not going to happen unless I go to bed now. I’d risk it, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s the Euro 2008 final tomorrow night and I wouldn’t miss that for the world, so…