A minor milestone in leisurely reading

Last night I finally finished Neil Stephenson's Quicksilver. Oh, don't
get me wrong, I've read it, and the full trilogy, before, but for much
of the past year I have been re-reading it aloud to my girlfriend. She
has an eye strain which means that if she reads too much at night she
gets headaches, and so I've been doing the recreational reading for
the two of us over the past year. We started out with Quicksilver, and
made steady but slow progress through it. There have been some breaks,
a small diversion through the worlds of Philip Pullman, a frantic dash
through the last Harry Potter, but quicksilver has been the constant
through the journey, a stable rock against which we could navigate.

There have been patches which have been hard to read out loud, many
sections of the book include deep philosophical discourse between
multiple characters, and when reading making clear who was saying what
was at times a bit of a challenge, but we finally got to the last page
just before midnight last night. Now just The Confusion, The System of
the World and The Cryptonomicon left to get through!