I use Rainy Days for the radar, and - since I’m in the UK - the Met Office weather app, which has a Next Rain widget.

Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine - basically takes place over the course of a lunch break - with a few footnotes and digressions.

OK, a LOT of footnotes and digressions. But, still, a lunch break.

There are years when I have read upwards of 60 books and others when I have scarcely read 6. It depends heavily on what else is going on. I don’t do numerical goals and never have.

For the last few years, however, no matter how many others I read, I have had a ‘big read’ of some kind spread across the year: War and Peace first - since it has 365 chapters in total, then In Search of Lost Time, and this year Finnegans Wake - which I was reading with a group which scheduled in some ‘summing up time’ at the end so I have finished it already. In 2024 I have decided that it will be The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: so completing that is my goal.