Your Summertime Reading, An Excerpt Or Quote

Maybe a good book you are reading, or article this summer, and an excerpt that to you is meaningful and might be to us generally also. If possible please include the date or year of the item's publication.

Mine: From Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), p. 525:

"The older women are bolder than the rest. You couldn't turn them bad. They believe in God. And they would break off a piece of bread from their meager loaf and throw it to us. And old camp hands--non-political offenders, of course--weren't afraid either. All camp veterans knew the saying: 'Whoever hasn't been there yet will get there, and whoever was there won't forget it.' And look, they'd toss over a pack of cigarettes, hoping that someone might do the same for them next term. And the old woman's bread wouldn't quite carry far enough, what with her weak arm, and it would fall short, whereas the pack of cigarettes would arch through the air right into our midst, and the convoy guards would immediately work the bolts of their rifles--pointing them at the old woman, at kindness, at the bread: 'Come on, old woman, run along.'
And the holy bread, broken in two, was left to lie in the dust while we were driven off."