I’m currently reading the book The Lost Art of Reading by David Ulin, which I love because it reminds me of why I love to read. He has a line in which he describes how we bring books to life by how we engage with them and how the books we read become a part of us as well. I can’t help but think of books like Just Mercy and My Promised Land and how deep an impact they have had on my understanding of the world. I’m currently on a memoir kick, and learning about what shapes people I respect has been meaningful in expanding my understanding of the beautiful and painful complexities of our world. As Gabrielle Union writes in her memoir, We’re Going to Need More Wine, “In the end, we are our stories."
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