She liked the....

[Paul Whybrow]

"She liked the sight of a good thick book. A lot of reading in that one, she would say, just as she would say there was a lot of wear in a coat or blanket. Indeed, the book was just like a warm, thick eiderdown that she could pull over herself, snuggle into.

Alice Munro

(from the short story Accident, in the collection The Moons of Jupiter)