I always thought February was a tough month. The extreme cold, the enclosed feeling, and the prolonged fatigue of what seems to be an everlasting winter, piled on the recent horrors we repeatedly saw, have made the fragile boundary between life and death a recurring topic in my mind.

In times of extreme turbulence, I always turn to books for solace, but that doesn't mean we should isolate ourselves. We read, we think—and we use the newfound strength to carry on. The dreadful feeling of fear persists, but so do we.

The list of works included:

1-The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

2-Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

4-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5-The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

6- 金鎖記/The Golden Cangue by Eileen Chang