" She did not care for the book herself. It seemed to her that it was a trifle insipid. She knew very little about life, so she was not a very good judge as to whether or not the books of Janetta Walters portrayed life as it really was, or people as they really were, but she had her doubts on the subject. Frances did not care for any of the books on Aunt Zoë’s list, but she was obliged to read them, for she had nothing else to read—you cannot go on reading Dickens indefinitely, however much you may enjoy him. "

― D.E. Stevenson , Spring Magic