…so, I’m just going to post the link to Toni McGee Causey’s blog post about why we need ‘escapist’ fiction.
http://www.murderati.com/blog/2008/11/23/comfort-reading.html
Many times in my life, books have carried me through some rough real-life situations. Maybe they were not all brilliant literary examples. But they told me stories that transcended the world, for just long enough.