There is something so special, so powerful about how a novel or a storybook transports you to a magical place, a different time, an imagined reality as you’re in the comforts of your home or sitting in the train for an hour-long commute. There’s something fair, just, and good about being able to visit places and meet faces with just the cost of a bus ride and a library card.
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How do we celebrate Christmas now during this unusual and unrehearsed time of our lives? How do we go about this holiday season that’s traditionally filled with happy, colorful places and lovely, familiar faces, with exchanges of hugs and kisses as well as food and gifts but is now expected to be tempered by pandemic health and safety protocols, by sadness and grief over personal and practical losses?
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Two days ago, as book lovers and avid readers all over the world celebrated World Book Day (April 23), I was reminded of this poem […] Read More
There are many things for which I am thankful to my mother. I remember how my mother made my siblings and me her top priority. […] Read More
After many afternoons reading while waiting at my daughter’s football training, after many nights of bedside reading, after five thoroughly enjoyable books, I have come […] Read More