Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together

Publication Date : 30/03/2021
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A book for our times, showing the power of literature to connect us to ourselves and others

It's an old cliche that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resonate through the ages. It's this multiplicity that is at the heart of bibliotherapy, the ancient practice of reading for therapeutic effect.

Reading the Seasons charts the evolution of a friendship through candid letters between bibliotherapists Germaine Leece and Sonya Tsakalakis. Ignited by a shared love of reading, of finding a book for every occasion, every emotion - both for themselves and for their clients - their conversations soon confront life's ups and downs. The authors they reach for range from Stephen King to Javier Marias, Helen Garner to Maggie O'Farrell, as they reflect upon loss, change, parenting, careers, simple pleasures, travel, successes, fears and uncertainty.

Reading the Seasons not only offers an entryway to new titles but affirms the power of books to console, heal and hold us together as friends and as individuals. 

(9781760761707)

SKU 9781760761707
Barcode # 9781760761707
Brand Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Artist / Author Germaine Leece
Shipping Weight 0.3100kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.160m
Shipping Length 0.240m
Unit Of Measure each
Publication Date 30/03/2021
format Paperback / softback
Number of pages 256

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