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“If the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such excuse is needed. It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading; it is true that the wisest of…

The cold months are my favourite – the bare trees, the ice cold prickle of a light wind against my face, the frost on windows creating intricate snowflakes in the sunlight, and the quiet that comes with Winter days. In the North, the sky is often grey, the lakes freeze over, and a light dusting…