for her ever generous sharing of her vast store of information. I've done the past three group reads and have found that my appreciation of the novels has increased exponentially from the contributions of our leaders and also from the posts of all others in on the process, as well as trying to read in such a way as to come up with intelligible things to post myself. I've approached the end of each GR with a combination of sadness that it is almost over and some anticipation of a little more rest--the process is intense.