‘Tis the season for culinary feasts and time to break out our favorite carving boards and pie plates. When it comes to literary feasts, what is your favorite serving platter? I’m still partial to printed books, but I suspect that is due to their aesthetic appeal. There’s something comforting about the sight of book jackets […]
Reading
Books that Sustain Us: Redux
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 […]
A New Year’s Resolve
Books That Sustain Us
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. […]