diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 02ba877..751a9e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Iris has a readline interface that can be used to navigate the message corpus.
 ### Readline Interface Example
 ```
 %> iris
-Welcome to Iris v. 1.0.9.  Type "help" for a list of commands.; Ctrl-D or 'quit' to leave.
+Welcome to Iris v. 1.0.10.  Type "help" for a list of commands.; Ctrl-D or 'quit' to leave.
 
  | ID | U | TIMESTAMP            | AUTHOR                  | TITLE
  |  1 |   | 2018-01-24T05:49:53Z | jimmy_foo@ctrl-c.club   | Welcome!
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ This outputs the current version of Iris, along with messsage, topic, and author
 ```
 jennie_minnie@ctrl-c.club~> info
 
-Iris 1.0.9
+Iris 1.0.10
 13 topics, 0 unread.
 50 messages, 0 unread.
 10 authors.
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ iris --version
 ```
 
 ```
-Iris 1.0.9
+Iris 1.0.10
 ```
 
 ---
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ iris --stats
 ```
 
 ```
-Iris 1.0.9
+Iris 1.0.10
 13 topics, 0 unread.
 50 messages, 0 unread.
 10 authors.
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index c9072ec..d48baa5 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -106,3 +106,6 @@
 # Completed as of 1.0.9
 * Stop checking domain on user validation
 * Fix bug causing color overflow when color tags break.  Special thanks go out to Japanoise (https://github.com/japanoise) for reporting this bug!
+
+# Completed as of 1.0.10
+* Fix bug causing system to crash when a user removes read permissions from their directory/iris.messages file
diff --git a/iris.rb b/iris.rb
index 48776b9..37eb3e5 100755
--- a/iris.rb
+++ b/iris.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require 'time'
 # require 'pry' # Only needed for debugging
 
 class Config
-  VERSION      = '1.0.9'
+  VERSION      = '1.0.10'
   MESSAGE_FILE = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.iris.messages"
   HISTORY_FILE = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.iris.history"
   IRIS_SCRIPT  = __FILE__
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ class IrisFile
         Display.say " * Unable to parse #{filepath}, skipping..."
         return []
       end
+    rescue Errno::EACCES => e
+      Display.say " * Unable to read data from #{filepath}, permission denied.  Skipping..."
+      return []
     end
 
     unless payload.is_a?(Array)