John Steinbeck is among my favorite authors. In the '60s I started "Grapes" several times, but couldn't get through it. It remained in my library all these years, and finally about five years ago I did read it. Fifty years on I re-read "Of Mice and Men", "Tortilla Flats", and "The Wayward Bus".

Others that I've read long after leaving school, are Washington Irving (a collection of ghost and supernatural short stories)and E. A. Poe, "Murders in the Rue Morgue." I discovered the joy of rich description and complex sentences. In fact, I needed to re-read some portions to assure I understood the sentence or paragraph.

Reading is my favorite past time, and I am usually reading books concurrently, although not in the same sitting---usually something fiction, a history, and some other sort of non-fiction.