Yay for reading! And yay for empathy!

From a random FreeCycler's .sig file:

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

-James Baldwin

Yay for insightful ideas from unexpected sources!

morganlf, I'm looking your way...

Where do I start reading the works of Octavia Butler? Anybody? You don't have to be morganlf to answer.