Welcome to #QuarantineReads, where I detail my reading life in our new and scary world! This isn't a regularly scheduled feature, so if you have a topic you want me to discuss, go ahead and email or comment! I'm open to anything. Really. A N Y T H I N G. I need more ideas.
I’ve been told to start a diary. Apparently I should value posterity more than my own well-being, which has never been helped by some external compulsion to record my feelings every day. I don’t think I will be journaling during my quarantine. Instead, I’ll let my reading choices speak for me. So far, I’ve read Serpent and Dove, The Devouring Gray, the Alice in Wonderland books, and made progress on Call Down the Hawk and A Wish in the Dark. Notice the similarities? All fantasy books. Fantasy usually benefits readers by reflecting societal and personal problems in a new setting, so that readers can connect with the hero and learn how to solve their own problems in a new context. I wholeheartedly agree. I want to read characters who are placed in impossibly strange situations and work themselves out of problems in inventive ways, because I need to learn that now. I’m retraining my brain to problem-solve. to live in a different habitat, to work on new routines. Besides, a little dose of magic usually makes my day. Tell me, readers, how are you escaping? Or are you escaping at all? Who’s the brave soul picking up a light contemporary in some comfortable beanbag chair, or window seat with a view of the trees? Let me know in the comments what you’re reading!
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Olivia S Durant
4/22/2020 11:44:56 am
Hi Shreya!
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