Books offer us a wider world and greater empathy with others.
“Books make you see a wider world, developing your soul, without them, you are like a frog sitting in the bottom of a well, who thinks the world is no bigger than the wells mouth. Without books you cannot get hold of your own soul.”
Her father had a study lined with books. Red guards came and carted them away to be burnt. It broke her father.
“Mao had a purpose when he called for books to be burnt,… because not reading will make a person more easily brutalized. “
YEAR OF BOOKS 2026 here in Scotland!
