Not reading much at all

...except a few recipes as this is one of the only times of the year that I do any recreational cooking and actually look at cookbooks for new things to try or try something that I remember worked well last year (and I obviously have to look at the recipe since I haven't made it for a year). So I made fruit bars, "butterscotch bark" and am about to embark on several recipes for a lunch tomorrow: a new soup, a new apple cake and maybe a cranberry-walnut loaf which is actually one of my mother's recipes. We remembered her making it and miraculously dug the recipe out of an old recipe box. It's written out in her handwriting in pencil and there's some nostalgia in reading it. How much more vivid is the experience of reading something handwritten? Or is it just the familiar hand that emotionally invests the writing and colours the reading of it?