The Power Of Books During A Crisis
My Awesome Mom hasn’t left her small apartment since the middle of March. She hasn’t seen her kids or grandkids in person (except for my eldest brother who lives with her) since then. Being at high risk, she can’t allow anyone to visit her. Her beloved baseball has also been postponed. I worried she’d find all this challenging.
She is incredibly and marvelously happy.
Why?
One of the reasons she’s happy is because she has discovered
large print cozy mysteries. She has been reading at least one of those a day.
They give her an escape into another world, a world in which there is murder
(grins) but that murder is always solved and there is no pandemic.
These books have not only given her joy but they have greatly
eased my concerns over her emotional wellbeing.
Reading and writing stories during a crisis might seem like
a trivial use of our time. In the movies, during times of crisis, people are
constantly fighting to survive, battling the baddies. There’s no downtime. It
is all action all the time.
This is reality, however, and we need downtime. We also need
happiness. To experience moments of joy at a time like this, to have the
ability to leave all our troubles behind and escape is essential. It is
magical. It empowers us to handle everything else.
That’s not trivial. At all. That’s a gift, one we should cherish.
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Testing Truth
A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.
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Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The
cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts
every call of adventure he encounters.
When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel
structure Truth is occupying, seeking a mercenary to assist her and her unusual
entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their assignment is
dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.
That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.
Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her
estranged brother from an enemy prison ship. That is her duty, and she has been
trained to always place the needs of her planet and her subjects before her
own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain
dark-haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.
But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his
laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough hands, tempts her as no one else ever
has. He could be her one fleeting act of rebellion before she’s matched with
the powerful ruler her planet requires.
If they survive their current mission.
Their love is doomed. Their lifespans are at risk. This
cyborg and his princess will need the help of every ally they have if they wish
to see another sunrise.
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