Actually, sometimes when I'm too lazy or tired to fully engage a new book, or feel the neeed for a pick-me-up, I'll re-read bits and pieces of a previously read favorite, maybe finding a favorite passage or just randomly picking a page. The opening three paragraphs of chapter 11 of Lessons for Survivors was just such a randon moment the other night and is really such a brilliant description of Ariadne--and you don't even include any physical description! Wow, that's writing! And a very long way round to say, I'll take a Bakewell tart. Which I had to look up, by the way, but sounds wonderful.