“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anaïs Nin
Until a few days ago I had never heard about Louis Zamperini. Now I don’t think I will ever forget him. His story is captured in Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken; A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” (2010).

There is nothing quite like the feeling you have when you read a book which captivates your attention in such a compelling way that you can hardly bring yourself to put it down. And when the book is 471 pages, that feeling lasts a very long time.