I've been seriously thinking of starting this blog for quite some time. No time like the present, I guess! And what a present we live in. I know things are tough all over. I'm trying to be grateful every day. I'm grateful I'm still employed and am working from home and that we have food and coffee and cats. I had a bunch of books checked out from the library when this hit, and I've been supplementing with digital titles from the library. I also grabbed some books off my personal shelf that I purchased and never read.
I've been on a classics kick, and many of them are available for free online.
I created this space not to brag about how much I'm reading, this is not a competition. Some of the most die-hard readers I know are just not feeling it right now. I totally understand. I believe everyone needs to do what they feel is best for them during this difficult time. I've been self-medicating with books and booktubers and writing actual letters to people. We are all doing our best.
Confession time: I have guilt because every week for the last 8 years I said to myself (usually while at work) "I wish I had a week off just to read." I was thinking more along the lines of a hammock and a fruity beverage, not face masks and death tolls. Scary.
One more confession: I really prefer books in print but I have been making do with digital copies of almost everything. I maintain it's the worst way to read a comic or graphic novel.
The collage above are the first 10 titles I read in self-isolation. Anna Karenina was already in progress in early March but instead of the 7 months I predicted it would take me to read, I plowed through it in less than a month. I found it soothing as it had NOTHING to do with what was going on in my world.
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