Books are in my opinion the quintessential keepers of wisdom that we humans have.

You may say.. the internet has gathered all the knowledge of the world at one’s fingertips..how then can books be so essential?

Books, unlike, a post or article on the internet requires a commitment to research, honing of ideas and channeling of one’s self as an author to publish a static piece of literature. The capturing of the author’s very thoughts, that in that final moment were as right as they could be..

I would love to read literary classics by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
Although, relegated to the past, these books provide a window to a place forgotten in time. To observe life as it was once lived, far from the doom scrolling of the 21st century.

Our modern lives are owed to the forebears that came before and the wisdom they amassed during a time of life when one had to have their wits about them. We live in a modern bubble, specially in the Western World, deprived of the knowledge of hardships experienced by many for the basic necessities of life.

I love the crime fiction genre, so naturally, I want to read every Poirot novel dreamt up by the great Agatha Christie.

Last but not least I would want to read the writings of plato and Aristotle to glean the wisdom these great stoic thinkers penned down millennia ago.