In the US, Quarantine Book Club offers readers the chance to “talk to authors without touching anyone”, holding live online Q&As ($5 for a login link). The internet has allowed new book clubs to form, in spite of self-isolation and lockdowns.
“Do I have enough books to last?” fretted another, as though her library choices were toilet paper. “Panic buying,” one woman said of her new Anne Enright. People have started sharing pictures of books they have stockpiled for self-isolation under the hashtag #CoronavirusReadingStack. With every connected device a potential portal for anxiety, it may never have felt so necessary to escape into the printed word. Being mostly solitary and indoors, it is one of the few pursuits that remain unchanged in this new world, while affording us access to others. As the Covid-19 crisis has confined us to our homes, a sliver of a silver lining (entirely inadequate, of course, but we look for them all the same) is that it has provided a chance to catch up on our reading.
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