When reading Dickens aloud in bed, do not, on any account, attempt to do all the voices.

There is a limit to how much pleasure you can share. Try to avoid reading aloud so many passages from your book that you ruin it for your partner when he or she has a turn at reading it; avoid reading out a witty phrase or a telling observation if it means you will have to take fifteen minutes to set the scene with an explanation of the plot and description of the characters involved. When reading Dickens (say Pickwick Papers) aloud in bed, do not, on any account, attempt to do all the voices.

O. Pritchett, 'Pillow talk' Slightly Foxed 37 (2013), 29