Settling Into a Book

Sometimes I pick up a book, read a few pages, and sort of nestle into it. I know it's going to please me, and I know each time I have to put it down, I'll want to come back to it.
Obviously it isn't the same book for everyone. I read THE BARTENDER'S TALE recently and was unmoved. I tried THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and set them aside for later--maybe.
Then I started THE ART FORGER and settled in. It's a book I want to read, not a book someone else says I should read.
Those other books are well written, I won't argue that, but some books speak to me. Some characters become my friends, at least for that brief period while we're adventuring together.
I don't know why, but I love when it happens.