I read fewer books last year than in any other year I have recorded (meaning since I started keeping a list at the start of college). I'd like to think this is entirely unrelated to the pressure of the 50 Book Challenge, but in any case, I am rather glad to be returning to a period of books as private and guilty pleasure. I will still blog about my readings a lot, I am sure, and still occasionally polish off a bad tome out of some misguided sense of guilt, but if I don't spend next New Year's frantically finishing a half-finished book on the game theory of administrative law, I will not be all that sorry.

Happy New Year to all. Now I, too, am off to celebrate.