By Good news, everyone! I am now fully retired, and I am back on my literary soap box. I know you have all been anxiously awaiting new postings (or at least some of you have, or possibly one or two of you). Here is a simple quote that I think epitomizes the value of reading. Simple but meaningful!
Quote by Matt Haig from Reasons to Stay Alive
Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect this idea. Which is why the plot of every book ever can be boiled down to ‘someone is looking for something.
Kevin J Ward 