Over the years, I've accumulated a ton of books that I got from sales or wherever you get books and they have have stacked up and sadly remain unread. You can't really say there are many benefits to having a long commute, but it does give me a lot of free time to read again. I have a long list of relatively new books that I want to get to read, but I'm making myself go through books I already have...or at least plow through two or three before buying a new one. I finished a Paul Theroux book that I'd been working on off and on since April. Now, I'm reading Confederacy of Dunces, which I bought some time during high school and never finished. Don't understand why I couldn't get through it back then. It's kind of hilarious.