Is this the year I read Ulysses?

Every Bloomsday I promise whoever I'm interviewing that this is the year I will read James Joyce's modern classic Ulysses. And every year, as soon as the day is over, I forget about it, until roughly this time, less than 48 hours to Bloomsday.

As the 16th June looms, I still haven't opened the copy I own. But at our planning meeting earlier there must have been a rush of blood to the head as we decided that I would, along with Noel (my producer) and Grainne (one of the production team) start tonight, read Chapter 1 and see how we feel tomorrow! 

Noel has a head start as he has already read it, I have bluffed my way through at least 6 Bloomsdays now and Grainne says she has tried to start it at least 3 times and once lived in a house where everyone owned a copy but nobody had ever read it!

Noel reckons that we could get it finished within the month. Just in time for Bloomsday 2011!