I remain stunned by Babi's sudden passing, I still can't take it in. We've lost so many of our family here, recently. So many voices which we looked forward to hearing are now silent.
It's amazing how well you get to know people in our books discussions, even though we live miles and in some cases continents apart. People we are so lucky to have met through the medium of the internet, in a shared love of books, whom we would never have had the opportunity to know otherwise.
One thing I always noticed and appreciated about Babi was that no matter how difficult the subject, (or the discussion, for that matter), if she had signed on, she was there. She never let the leader of the discussion or the discussion itself down. She would tackle anything that came up with the same optimistic curiosity. She was loyal to a fault, she was there every morning and always had something new, thoughtful, interesting, kind, and as one of our posters observed, generous to say. Often she'd see things in the text nobody else had caught, and she'd be right. I admired those qualities in her, and our discussions were the richer for her contributions.
It's very difficult to lose somebody like Babi. My sincere sympathy to her family whom she loved so well.
