In these days of social distancing and long grocery lines, it’s important to find comfort and peace wherever we can. Curling up with a good book is wonderful under the best of circumstances: in stressful times like the one we’re living through, it becomes even more important. Like many readers, I adore Agatha Christie. She …
Now that we are over two-thirds of the way through 2019 (and, wow, how did that happen??), I thought we could talk about the Goodreads 2019 Reading Challenge.
Every year I try to re-read A Christmas Carol (which is my very favorite book), and I am always struck by the following passage, after Scrooge has undergone his famous transformation: “Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to …