I have at times used audiobooks as company in the middle of the night, but apart from that, I have just picked the books that look like an interesting mystery.

I read quite a lot in normal times and so I think my reading consumption has not much changed in terms of quantity

Have you read more or less during lockdown, or much the same as usual?

Have you read more or less during lockdown, or much the same as usual?

Have you read more or less during lockdown, or much the same as usual?

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.

I have increased my rate of reading during lockdown, and have definitely enlarged my choice of genre.

Started off less – used to read on frequent train journeys to babysit grandsons or up to London for ballet etc [sob] – so frequent reading stopped when that stopped.