The Echo of Old Books

by Barbara Davis

“Women aren’t usually consulted on wars. We send our husbands and brothers and sweethearts to do the dying, hold the pieces together while they’re gone, then pick up what’s left when they come home—if they come home—but we’re seldom asked what we think.”

We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other.