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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Sep 16, 2018September 16, 2018

“Losing yourself in reading”

I thought that Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, offered lovely insights on what reading fiction means to her in this interview. I have selected a few passages that resonated for me:

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Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: books, Edinburgh, experience, First Minister, I would spend my days hiding under the table reading, Nicola Sturgeon, Patrick Geddes, Reading, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Tomas Transtömer

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