As the young'uns say today, I feel seen

May 16, 2020 15:20


Today's Tom Gauld Cultural Cartoon:

on rearranging your bookshelves in lockdown.

So like one.

(Okay, I am not, so far, actually doing Zoom meetings, but I must say, if I were, I might just possibly be tempted into doing a setup with My Own Brag Shelves in the revolving bookcase where I could sit with my laptop carefully angled...)

And on reading, a couple of links I've been meaning to put out there:

For a lot of book lovers, rereading old favorites is the only reading they can manage at the moment.

The myth of the golden age of reading (I think I may have made some of those points myself, on occasion - and does anyone else have the memory of people referring to magazines as 'books': maybe they still do?)

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books, shelves, reading, word usage, epidemics, nostalgia, cartoons, vanity

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