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A Prayer for All Readers By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Master of the Universe, we are so grateful for the chance to read books that fire our imaginations, stir our soul, and expand our circle of compassion. Poll: For all the talk of print books bein…
A Prayer of Thanks for Libraries and Librarians By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Fountain of Wisdom, we, along those who responded to this poll, give thanks for and strongly value the public libraries in our communities for promoting literacy and improving the overall quality of…
Needed: Sacred Spaces Everywhere By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times by Andrew Keh, we read about the meditation room recently opened in the Barclays Center, a Brooklyn sports arena where the Nets play. Very few fans know it even e…
The Value of Libraries By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Alberto Manguel, in his review of The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History edited by Alice Crawford, calls this book "a wonderfully informative, erudite, and entertaining collection of essays.…
The Art of Using a Book By Frederic Brussat Blog Post "Using a book, not reading it, makes us wise" is a motto from Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes published in 1586. Reading it, I smile knowingly, thinking of my habit of nurturing a pragmatic re…
Empathy and Reading By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Since 2008, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin of the School of Life in London have been suggesting books to clients to alleviate various conditions. They wrote about this service, which they call bib…
Book Clubs as Transfusion Centers By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, writer James Atlas points out that there are about 5 million Americans participating in some kind of book club. They meet in living rooms, in local libraries, in…
Rituals of Our Lives By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Unitarian Universalist Wisdom From beginning to end, the rituals of our lives shape each hour, day, and year. . . . If you understand them, you may enrich them. In this way the habits of a lifeti…
On Reading By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post These past weeks we have been shelving in our library the books we reviewed in 2016 and organizing the ones that have come in for review in 2017. So the subject of how reading helps us find meaning …
Can't Remember Books, Movies, and TV Shows? By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post There used to be a time when information junkies like us could read a book, watch a movie, or a TV show and the next day share all about the storyline with family, friends, or colleagues. In a fasci…

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