When we decided to move here last year, we didn’t really know you well. We had only spent 2 months here four years before, and although we knew we liked you, we didn’t know if we’d love you. Let me tell you some of the reasons we are falling in love.

I’ve long been an avid reader of fiction. I can remember getting lost in Jane Eyre when I was about 12, giving me dreams that I, too,...