Here’s one reason to keep reading

Thanks for the great article on the storybook houses [“Life Within a Fairy Tale,” Jan. 13] and also the wonderfully written memoir of growing up in a mansion in Iran [“The Pull of a Palace of Childhood”] that appeared on the same day.

This is why I keep reading The Times even though the paper’s politics keep my blood pressure up. Thinking about that issue still lights my day.

Barbara Holland

Rancho Santa Fe