The Blue Hour: stunning illustrated ode to nature's rarest color; pioneering composer and defiant genius Ethel Smyth on making music while going deaf

Midweek pick-me-up: May Sarton on the cure for despair and why solitude is the seedbed of self-discovery

Why we like what we like, an illustrated meditation on how to live with our human fragility, Toni Morrison's recipe for sanity, joy, and self-love

The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story — revealing my children's book, a labor of love years in the secret making