That’s great! Whenever I’m feeling down, his books are mental comfort food that help me re-center. GNU sir Pterry!

Roots by Alex Haley The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China’s Cultural Revolution by Feng Jicai

KEXP.org is free streaming and has a huge variety of music. It’s indy, run by human DJs, and has an app. They play just about every music type and publish their playlist live. Try that for new music. I find new stuff to listen to every week ( I find stuff to like in every genre, but if you’re more particular, then you might have to scope out the schedule to see when the genres you like get play)