Books are all around me. I need their warm presence all the time. My shelves are parallel to my bed. Two small steps separate us. I glance at my books, and wish them goodnight and good morning every night and day. It provides familiar safety.
It has always been books and songs that help me through hardships. Fiction and non-fiction characters encountered in books are my friends. Autobiographies hit deeper than novels; yet a novel is more mesmerizing.
I will keep reading, lost in a beautiful trance that helps me cope with this harsh reality and this war-torn country.
It has always been books and songs that help me through hardships. Fiction and non-fiction characters encountered in books are my friends. Autobiographies hit deeper than novels; yet a novel is more mesmerizing.
I will keep reading, lost in a beautiful trance that helps me cope with this harsh reality and this war-torn country.

















