From Lynne:  I have met some of my most influential friends and mentors among the pages of well-worn books. When chaos reigns in life I pull out PG Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, and Conan Doyle – in need of laughter and methodical order. In moments when I feel all alone in the universe, I think of George Macdonald’s The Princess and the Goblin and the sustaining images of journeying in the land of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. In the stories of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row I meet earthy characters infused with dignity and I give way to celebration. Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection and his collections of short stories have called me back into their pages time and time again. And when sun shines in at the edge of morning I often turn to the poetic prayers of John Philip Newell in Celtic Benediction: Morning and Night Prayer.