And I shall pose to you a question I recently asked (http://ebess.livejournal.com/555053.html) over on my journal: how much time per day do you spend on pleasure reading?

Your books have arrived and are now on my bedside, along with Francine Prose's THE LIVES OF THE MUSES, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF FAIRY TALES, Maria Tatar's SECRETS BEYOND THE DOOR and Zipe's second half of his Sicilian folktales collection, the name of which I can't remember just now...