“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again. p.20” HealingEscape Into Living Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading