RE: Comfort Books

From a reader, responding to Nathaniel’s post :

I had a habit of rereading the Lord of the Rings every year during the summer for a decade, and in the past three years, I’ve read the entire Patrick O’Brian series twice because times were bad, and I turn to swashbucklers when things are going rough.

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