Really anxious times, especially when you're a long way from family and already have loved ones who are very sick. Sending love to anyone who's in a similar situation. 💕 And thank you to everyone who's been posting kind, joyful, beautiful stuff on here. It helps, it really does. Other things that are helping: finding quiet times to walk along the beach, experimenting with vegan cheese recipes gifted to me by a friend, the WhatsApp group my partner set up for everyone in our block of flats... and of course, reading. In the mix here are new work from @elenikwriter and @pennylanewriter alongside, Carmen Maria Machado's frankly mindblowing stories, Adrian Tchaikovsky's sequel to Children of Time, Manda Scott's heartstopping Boudica novel, Dreaming the Eagle, some Golden Age crime from Martha Grimes and Ann Pettifor's hopeful and inspiring The Case for the Green New Deal. What's keeping you sane at the moment?
#shecametostay #boudica #childrenofruin #herbodyandotherparties #ecosocialism #greennewdeal #gndnow #andtherestisrustandstardust #richardjury #socialdistancingatthebeach #kindness #vegancheese
Reading so much good stuff at moment, it's hard to put one book down and move onto the next, but I have deadlines! So, I'm reading a chapter a day of Claire Tomalin's biography of Dickens. I'm trying a new book club locally, so need to finish Kirsty Wark's The House by the Loch by Thursday evening. It's a beautiful family drama set in Scotland with multiple timelines and narrators, so that's not exactly going to be a hardship! I also have The Testaments out from the library on my Kobo ereader, because yay for technology. And if I have any time left in my day, I'm zipping through Golden State, a futurist police procedural in which truth is everything and lying can get you killed. Anyone else thrive on reading multiple books like this?
