What book or story has made you fall a little bit in love with life again?

Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon – Steven Rinella

His description of a hunt he goes on and the passion that comes through his pen is inspiring.

There are a couple of books that have revved up my appreciation for the world around me — **Islands of Abandonment**, by Cal Flyn, and **The Golden Mole**, by Katherine Rundell. The first inspires wonder about the natural world, specifically how places that have been messed up by human habitation start to come back on their own when left to themselves — she goes to a number of places around the world, Chernobyl, The Salton Sea in California, a WWI battle site in France, etc., and her writing is almost poetic. The second one is about animals that shouldn’t be real but are — It’s published under another name in the US (“Vanishing Treasures”), but I like the original name because the Golden Mole is an example of the impossible that is true — this is the only mammal that has iridescence — its colors appear to change when you look at them in sunlight from different angles. Yet the mole itself lives entirely underground and is blind. How would iridescence evolve?? Rundell is lovely — I often think of something she said, that it’s no wonder that people used to believe in unicorns, considering that many people today believe that narwhals are imaginary.