Aoife Martin: Forget Twitter doom-scrolling. Books help you escape the lockdown blues
Our columnist says she found it hard to read books last year when the world was falling apart, but 2021 has so far reminded her of her love of reading. By Aoife Martin Thursday 18 Feb 2021, 7:00 AM Feb 18th 2021, 7:00 AM 9,622 Views 0 Comments Aoife Martin
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– Neil Gaiman
LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I’m finding this latest iteration of lockdown to be particularly tough. Truth be told, at times it’s been a bit of a struggle.
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Here are a half-dozen recommended paperbacks, if your bedside table is currently bare.
âThe Magical Language of Othersâ by E.J. Koh
Seattle author Kohâs intergenerational memoir, a recent winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, was inspired by letters written to Koh in Korean by her mother, who left her children behind in California in order to return to South Korea for work.
A reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle described the book as âa wonder: a challenging and deep meditation on how wounds of the past and present inform our relationship with those outside of us, which is to say, everyone.âÂ
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