Halfway into my week’s holiday at the end of March, our bookshops closed due to Covid-19. It was unwelcome but not unexpected news. The stress which had made concentrating on a book impossible ramped up even more. I found myself endlessly scrolling through newsfeeds, appalled but unable to look away from the daily horrorshow. What helped to redirect my attention was preparing for the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2020, a reading challenge I initiated last year and was preparing for since February of this …
Author: Karina Clifford
→Karina has been a bookworm forever and her formative childhood reads were The Bookshop on the Quay by Patricia Lynch and Alice Through the Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll, which may or may not explain a great deal...
Natural habitat is a bookshop, happily enough; may also be found writing about books on Instagram @bookaneer808.
Now that we’re all housebound, what we need is a book that will whisk us off to someplace else. Fancy travelling to Italy? Donna Leon‘s series of crime novels set …
What does a bookseller do when they are not in their natural habitat, the bookshop? Well, this bookseller spends a large chunk of their time off reading. The only downside …
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