Ye gods, I finished a book!

...and yes, that is pretty damn spectacular, given that over the last two years or so, I could consider myself lucky for getting over the first few chapters of any written work before just drifting away either because of boredom or because I plainly forgot, leading to dozens of partly read volumes lingering asthmatically on my shelves. Fortunately, illness is often a good excuse to finally plow through something, and as fate would have it, that something turned out to be ( PopCo by Scarlett Thomas )

ETA: Randomly: If Thomas Hardy had written children's books.