This book was recommended to me by my son as I was recovering from a recent illness. The author recounts one-year of a decades long illness in which she was unable to even sit up on her own. She finds solace with a snail who lives in a terrarium next to her bed.
She specifically states that at the worst of her illness she was not able to even read to herself, and that the library was a place (among others) that she could not go. As she recovers a bit she can sit up enough to read again and requests "through interlibrary loan the twelve-volume compendium The Mollusca which covers the entire phylum of mollusks".
A quick, yet meditative read.
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