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By Aoife Barry
Thursday 31 Dec 2020, 9:30 AM
Dec 31st 2020, 9:30 AM
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Image: Shutterstock/Evgeny Atamanenko
Image: Shutterstock/Evgeny Atamanenko
A BOOK IS a portal to another place – a way to escape. You can jump into the past, explore the future, or take a sidestep into someone else’s life in just a few pages.
So what with 2020 being, well, the year that it was, it’s no surprise that many of us turned to books to get a bit of a break.
Conal:
“I re-read all of the Montalbano detective series, read Dario Fo’s plays and, most recently, Hannah Arendt’s report of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem which absolutely did not bring me comfort but was very good. Camilleri’s lovable detective Salvo Montalbano is a tonic. The novels transport the reader to the mean streets of Sicily where the sun beats down every day. A far cry from cold Ireland in lockdown.”