The healing power of books has helped psychologist and author Maggie Mulqueen persist through the darkest nights in her cancer journey.
Like most writers, I am an avid reader. It is the rare night I fall asleep before turning a few pages of a book. My taste in books runs a fairly wide gamut with few exceptions, one of them being mysteries. So, I was quite surprised to find myself immersed in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache novels, all 18 of them. After I received a diagnosis for breast cancer in December of 2022, Peter, one of my closest friends, told me to read Penny’s books.
Plumping the pillows and tucking into the twin bed, I was suddenly transported not to Three Pines, but to the bedroom of my childhood with a different book in hand, ”The Hidden Staircase,” a Nancy Drew mystery. My mother disapproved of Nancy Drew books, saying they were “not literature.” Apparently, my local library shared her perspective because it didn’t carry them.
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