Reading for Joy: Recent Episodes
Heather Barfoot
This podcast is a retirement project and maybe ... for the listener steeped in the controversies of modern culture and dire news reports ... something different. An eclectic collection of texts, chosen only for two reasons: I encountered them at some stage in my life and they endured for me, continuing to challenge me or delight me or, most often, doing both.
You won't find audio book perfection here. I am most decidedly not a 'voice' professional. I am just a lover of ideas, both bright and dark, of stories, and of how the well-written word married with the human voice can touch us.
I received a collection of Andersen's Fairy Tales for "Christmes 1965", as my 9-year-old self wrote in the flyleaf. The book has traveled with me throughout my life and it will be a joy to revisit some of these stories again. This one had to be the first. Reading shapes us and this story became part of my story.