I've had a good week: out with friends for dinner twice, a wonderful school music concert (I realise that often the words 'school music' and 'wonderful' don't often go together, but it's true), successful meetings for work, and the Future Music Festival last night in KL. But there's been no time to read!

I have more than a few exciting new titles on my Kindle, burning their way through the electronic text and demanding my attention: and no time to properly read them. Yes, yes, I could be reading now instead of writing this, but I need several hours to do them justice, not the ten minutes I currently have spare to type this.

There's Kate Atkinson's Life After Life - apparently some kind of do over Groundhog Day type book that has had me excited for weeks waiting for it to be released; Events, Dear Boy, Events - political diaries that my grandmother keeps raving about; the latest Victor the assassin book...and that's just to name a few. I need twenty four hours AT LEAST, with some kind of minion to occasionally feed me and provide me with cups of tea (is that why people get married?).

I reckon that governments should seriously consider setting mandatory reading time. It would be good for the mental health of every nation, boost literacy skills, improve general knowledge...I could go to my boss tomorrow and say, 'no, it's not that I want a duvet day - it's a self-improvement day'. Or something much catchier but in the same vein. One can only hope ;)