A reader reads
Earlier, I read a tweet that said something like a musician must perform. Because that's what musicians do. I suppose in the same vein, a writer must write, a dancer must dance, etc. I guess, at this point in the lockdown/quarantine, I like the romanticism, the sense of purpose. I've told many people I haven't really been able to read. It's been 51 days since our lockdown started, and I've only been able to finish two books: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Weather by Jenny Offill. The first took me three weeks to finish; the second, a day because I crammed it for book club (thank God for book club ). Like a few other people I know, I can't seem to concentrate on a book during this period. Any book. Many things have been written about our collective and personal anxieties during lockdown. I acknowledge all of this (likely, too, why I'm penning this at 1:41AM my time), More specifically, though, I feel I can't read because I find i...