I am definitely reading more in lockdown
Have you read more or less during lockdown, or much the same as usual?
Entries by Rosalind Esche
I’ve been using novels as a good way of winding down at the end of the day
Have you read more or less during lockdown, or much the same as usual?
I discovered that I can enjoy reading more than one book at a time, which was something of a revelation.
Have you read more or less during lockdown, or much the same as usual?
More. When I was a working Librarian, I only found time to read at night but that has all changed. I now have more time to read during the day.
I tend to eke out reading the works of dead authors: reading the last one and realising there won’t be any more is a dreadful feeling.
Has lockdown affected your choice of reading material?
Not especially. My reading has always been fairly broad. As a part-time PhD student much of my reading relates to my research. I’ve never read fiction in a big way, though I do have some favourite authors (including Iris Murdoch). I tend to eke out reading the works of dead authors: reading the last one and realising there won’t be any more is a dreadful feeling.
The company of books is of paramount importance to me
I have always been a “chain reader” from as long as I can remember, reading everything, even labels in the bathroom!
Cellarer’s Chequer
I went on a few tours by the brilliant and sadly deceased former road sweeper and tour guide Allan Brigham, and remembered a few “hidden places of Cambridge”, such as the sign near the Grafton Centre showing the location of an old women’s refuge, and how he said: “This shows the history of the real […]
I was having difficulties with both sleeping and concentration, and I couldn’t get into anything
In late March 2020, as the first lockdown began, my reading didn’t quite come to a halt, but it definitely slowed down dramatically; I went from getting through two or three books a week (I’d managed ten in both January and February) to struggling to finish one.
Lockdown life rather suits me, as I’m quite content in my own little world
I have increased my rate of reading during lockdown, and have definitely enlarged my choice of genre.
Sharing lockdown with Fantine, Brother Juniper, and a hideous small boy
If not for lockdown would I ever have taken up the gauntlet and turned to Fantine, the first tome (of five) of “a sort of essay on the infinite,” as Victor Hugo called Les Misérables?
I am finding it much easier to concentrate on extremely trivial things, such as Fantasy Premier League
At first more, because of all the extra time freed up by not commuting.