" In spite of her disinclination to travel, Mrs. Högfors was an eager reader, and was perfectly happy to read about exotic places that she would never visit. Rather to Ulf’s surprise, she also read books on popular science, although she was undiscriminating as to their date of publication. This meant that she would sometimes talk about what she described as exciting new possibilities well after those possibilities had been translated into reality. Thus she had excitedly told Ulf that she had read a book predicting that one day man would undoubtedly set foot on the moon. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)