Janet Benton's Blog: One Writer's Path - Posts Tagged "empathy"

I thought some of you dedicated book-lovers might be able to relate to what I wrote in this essay just up at Bill Wolfe's blog, Read Her Like an Open Book. Little excerpt: "My heart has been shaped by novels as much as by circumstance. As a child, thanks to my mother, schoolteachers, and our school and town libraries, I read vast amounts of fiction and nonfiction. These precious books introduced me to the lives and struggles of all sorts of people in America and around the world. Through reading, my heart filled and expanded. I held those powerful stories and their authors in high esteem." The full essay is at
www.readherlikeanopenbook.com, just type in my name, or cut and paste https://readherlikeanopenbook.com/201...