Leslie E

I've been a reader lifelong and can't imagine a world without books. The joy of curling up with a book and going where the author takes me--there's nothing like it. Many of the books on my shelf I read years ago and I probably couldn't put together an intelligent discussion about them. I just remember the emotional wallop that each gave me,... more »

I've been a reader lifelong and can't imagine a world without books. The joy of curling up with a book and going where the author takes me--there's nothing like it. Many of the books on my shelf I read years ago and I probably couldn't put together an intelligent discussion about them. I just remember the emotional wallop that each gave me, that each in some way deepened my understanding of what it is to be human, to be able to experience such powerful emotions through gorgeous prose. And huge gratitude to the writers who venture to lay bare part of themselves and create such worlds for me to explore. « less