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The Fellowship of Readers

October 20, 2024 by Sherrie Dulworth

Chances are, if you love reading, you enjoy sharing your bookish experiences. This seems to hold true whether we discuss, dissect, agree, disagree, or agree-to-disagree about a particular work. We love to talk about books.

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Literary Feasts: What is your Favorite Serving Platter?

November 19, 2021 by Sherrie Dulworth

When it comes to literary feasts, what is your favorite serving platter? There are those who challenge if all formats are “real” books. To me, it’s akin to arguing about whether stuffing served outside the bird is truly stuffing or if wine bottled with a screw cap is legitimately wine (answer: yes to both).

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Books that Sustain Us: Redux

March 30, 2020 by Sherrie Dulworth

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The 2014 Curious Cats Read debut blog post explored how books can help sustain us during difficult times. As I write this more than six years later, many of us are confronting unprecedented  challenges of sudden physical solitude and social isolation coupled with uncertainty and fear arising from the COVID-19 global pandemic. This seemed an […]

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A New Year’s Resolve

January 5, 2018 by Sherrie Dulworth

We are creatures of habit, and that is never more evident as in the advent of a new year when we swear to new habits as we discard old ones. Despite our best intentions, perhaps it is the very habit of our habits that could use a New Year’s resolve.

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Books That Sustain Us

January 5, 2014 by Sherrie Dulworth

Reading alone photo

I love reading. That’s evident in the creation of this blog. Books teach me what I didn’t know, break open my self-imposed boundaries, inspire my next steps, entertain me and enrich my hours. If you’re reading this, you know exactly what I mean. But there’s something else about books we don’t often consider: books sustain us. […]

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