A Book List for When You are Feeling Sick of the World
When the Covid lockdown was announced, I don't remember booking it to the grocery for sanitizer and toilet paper, but I do I remember heading straight to the library. Walking in felt surreal, as if we were in a movie. People were running and panicky. My mom was with me and we admittedly were both hurriedly determined to cram our arms and bags full of as many books as possible. The shelves were already looking bare and the doors were imminently closing. I rely quite heavily on the library for my homeschooling and I absolutely love to visit. I view it as my mental health day and honestly don't own a vast amount of books. That day, I recall looking at my mom and laughingly apologizing for all the times I complained when she drug me to library as a kid. The uncertainty and fear in the library was palpable but seemed that everyone there knew that having books on hand would be a true commodity in the coming hard months. I once heard a story of a mother that endur...