Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.