The thing that has kept me going during all three lockdowns has been the British tv drama series Life on Mars, first unleashed on our tv screens 15 years ago in January 2006. I somehow managed to miss it then, but discovered it, thanks to my son, during the first lockdown during the spring of 2020.
Category: Life on Mars
‘Life on Mars’ a lifeline during stressful times
In the last couple of years, aided by belonging to a book club, I was usually reading a book a month. When the first lockdown began in 2020, there were two dozen or more unread books on the shelves, but I felt the need to stock up on some new titles.
Reading through the lens of lockdown
βTo acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.β β W. Somerset Maugham