My eclecticism does NOT include biography/autobiography - if it’s “real world” I’m not interested…. I have to live here as it is.

I did enjoy Blink (Malcolm Gladwell) though, because it’s something I have happen all too often myself, just never knew what to call it or that others had the experience.

Actually, though, one of my favorite things to do with extra bits of time is just read the encyclopedia. Literally.

And YA books: The Princess and Curdie/The Princess and the Goblin (George McDonald); Walter Farley’s Black Stallion books and other horse books; the Nancy Drew series; the Sue Barton books; The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper; Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and others….

And Tolkien. Over and over…. and every time I read Tolkien I find something I’d forgotten long ago, or never noticed before - and I’ve been re-reading the whole load of them once a year at least since the mid-80s.

Yup, first class is great. But a great book will make you forget coach…. been there both, done that…. the book’s the important thing….

Personally, if I ever heard that a book of mine made a woman LAUGH while sitting in a chair next to her dying husband in a hospital bed, it would give me great joy. Far greater joy, in fact, that if I learned a book of mine had been chosen to be studied at a university.