Ok, stick with me as I get to my eventual point:
Earlier today someone on Twitter asked if people knew what “STEM” stood for, and, if so, what it meant to them. I responded something along the lines of “Yes, I know what it stands for, but in middle/high school all it meant was I should feel guilty for wanting to Rory Gilmore under a tree” which has tickled me ever since because I absolutely love that I just turned Rory Gilmore into a verb. I don’t think I will ever stop using that phrase.
(For those not initiated: Rory Gilmore of the Gilmore Girls was a huge book nerd, the type of girl who wouldn’t go anywhere without a book in case she had downtime and a chance to read [I suspect current day Rory Gilmore is VERY PLEASED with the iPhone Kindle app and also is sad that she broke up with Logan for no good reason.] [Um, spoiler.] Anyway, in the first episode of the Gilmore Girls, Rory is seen reading under a tree and the new Cute Boy on campus is so taken with her awesome reading skills (…seriously) (…and that is TOTALLY something that I know is ridiculous but also like, Cute Dean! Where were you when *I* was in high school? I read all the time! Come see!) that he just has to ask her out, because, she was like, reading. Rory Gilmore is to reading as Jordan Catalono is to leaning, ya know?)
ANYWAY. THEN, LATER, I read this article over at The Toast: “This Week in Reading” which is a loose review of two books but mostly just a conversation about how awesome uninterrupted airplane time is for good reading sessions, and the author mentions “Wolf Hall”, a 692 page award winning book about the Tudors, and I thought “Ok, I should probably read that.” Cue me keyboarding my way over to Goodreads, where I see everyone – literally every single Goodreads friend I have who has heard of this book- had the same reaction the author of The Toast article:
“…it’s 672 pages long and about the Tudors, so I knew I was GOING to love it, someday, eventually.”
Everyone has it on their “To Read” list – not a single person has actually read it. Which: heeeeeeeeee, you guys, I love you. I do. That is so great. Of course we want to read it! It won the Booker Prize in 2009! It sounds great! It’s… well, it’s 700 pages about the Tudors. This is absolutely the book you put on hold at the library, feel a great sense of reluctant responsibility and commitment when it comes up available, and then it sits on your coffee table, mocking you and your quickly devoured copy of Bared to You and then you return it unread with $2.75 worth of late fees that inspire more guilt than the $110 you spent on your current pair of yoga pants.
Which is all my way of saying I feel that I have curated my Goodreads friend list appropriately.
InnerTeub 
Haaa I’ve been reading Wolf Hall since … January? Awhile. I’m a little more than halfway through and fairly well stuck, because yep. It IS really good – but usually I have the brain power and quiet time for nun assassins. Also, at this point it’s possible I’ve got some of the characters from that series tangled up with the Tudors, which if Mantel had stuck a couple killer nuns into her narrative? YESSSS.
This just pushed me to the next step — I bought it for my Kindle. I feel like maybe it’ll be kind of like a vacation from Infinite Jest, which I started in January and am … 4% through. Seriously.