i agree with you PL about biolgraphical bedtime reading ..that it infringes rest.As it should...if the reader has compassion/The processing of the written word is essential.I always have a space between books..so that whatever was there to be felt/understood can tumble into my thinking.Also after a play..what was the theme.
Much of social welfare essential reading is also thought provoking..the treatment of pre marriage preganancy not so long ago.How girls were sent away..some even hospitalised..for their "sins"
I have used Simple Abundance over a number of years at bedtime..each new reading allowing another insight..also Sarah
Ban Breanachs other books..they hit the spot for peaceful rest.

Recently I read a biography of an English woman who Father from day one of her life made it clear he would be her p..i...m..p.
sad beyond words...yet her life now is educating others..she graphicly describes a very cruel childhood..within the text she repeated tells how she continued to love her father...