A Cheer and a Half for Eccentricity

I was having a little snack a couple of days ago, some bread and cheese -- I made that bread, by the way -- and a glass of Spanish red wine, taking a moment on the back porch to read a few pages of a book I plucked from the shelves in the sitting room. I decided, in another by-the-way moment here, to start reading books from our library instead of tryi…