That's a mighty big book!

For the last few years (since I've actually had the time to sit and read) I have set myself the task of reading the Booker short list. I usually manage to read most of them, but for the last two years one of them has defeated me. Not through lack of time so much as just not being able to read a particular book. Last year it was the one that eventually became the winner, the Harold Jacobson book. I just couldn't get into it at all.

So this morning a parcel arrived and there was the 2012 set. From the little I know about any of these books, I think the Will Self book is likely to be the one I miss out on, but the Hilary Mantel is a mighty big book and I never finished Wolf Hall. Oh dear!

Anyway, it's a nice way to start Autumn, now we have arrived home from the sun to drab, damp, cold weather.