A Reading Menu
by Rosalind Foley on 04/23/13
Once in a while, when situations in my real world become heavy, I pick up a good mystery and lose myself in it. I tend to choose what's known as a 'cozy', more of a puzzler, with not so much blood and guts. Escape reading.
Then there are books like The Kite Runner and Tracy Kidder's almost unbearable The Strength in What Remains, that are important to read because they challenge me to appreciate the lives and struggles of others.
A book I return to for hope is Richard Rohr's Everything Belongs.
To overcome her grief over the early death of a sister, Nina Sankovitch decided to read a book every day for a year. The experience led her to write Tolstoy and the Purple Chair. It's a reader's/thinker's book. Check it out.
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