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Solitude

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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Books That Sustain Us

January 5, 2014 by Sherrie Dulworth

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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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"Face it.
Curiosity will not cause us to die—
Only lack of it will.”

(from "Curiosity" by poet Alistair Reid)

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