Ah, books. Need to leave the planet for a few hours? Get a book and start reading. Does anything else (legal) have quite that power of personal transport?

I'm very new to this site, so apologies to anyone who has tried to make contact. I really have no idea how to make contact back, as yet, but I'm on the learning curve. I think. What I love is this sense that there are a lot of smart people in this community reading a lot of smart books, a notion that is both energizing and comforting.

So, anyway, I'm going to plunge back in now and try to get all this figured out. I'm reading Testament by Anita Shreve at the moment, and enjoying it quite a bit. And people say I write dark things!

E.