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How Books Solace, Empower and Transform Us
Since the invention of the printing press, books have fed the human
animal's irrepressible hunger for truth and meaning. Books offer refuge
and companionship during lonely childhoods. The following piece opens
the pages of a wonderful collection of essays about why we read and how
books transform us from some of the most inspiring humans in our world:
artists, writers, scientists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, musicians,
and adventurers whose character has been shaped by a life of reading.
