Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week.
Today’s question is:
Are you interested in reading books that mention Covid or Lockdown?
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The simple answer is no I feel like it’s far too soon. Maybe lockdown I could handle a little better if it was an inspirational book about a romance coming out of a online meeting. It would need to not focused on Covid and be more of a relationship. Apart from that I really don’t want to read about Covid.
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Short answer…no. The only COVID-related reading I enjoy is the articles reporting on the scientific studies and medical advances. COVID fiction doesn’t interest me at all.
yep mine too. I could probably read a book where they are looking to find ways to treat the illness (2 scientist who fall in love) but I think its too soon. we don’t know the outcome like when it will be all over so too soon.
No. Maybe in about fifty years when it is in the distant past (hopefully) and it’s the background setting for an adventure, romance or some other genre….Oh, if I should still be alive in another fifty years. Ha haa – not likely! 🙂
Yes like we now have books that feature or are around the Spanish Flu and that is fine because we know the outcome. The Spanish flu just died out which helps I cant see Covid just dying out. (One plus for me is no hugging. I don’t like it personally and right now I am safe same with when people invade my person space I can ask for the space and not be looked at. I can’t handle people almost on top of me and on Sunday I was on the door and people were beside and behind and I had to ask them to move a bit)
That’s a no for me. It’s all we hear about and for the most part, fiction is a mental escape for me, so I definitely wouldn’t want to read about COVID.
I agree even watching some shows where its in the background I can handle but when its in your face I don’t want to watch it.
No. Definitely not. It’s hard enough hearing about it constantly on the news without it encroaching on my leisure reading. I won’t even use the word if at all possible.
I agree. I have friends who have lost family and just learnt another close friend in America has it and she is in the high risk category due to reduce lung capacity. Its more than I want to hear.
What can I say? I’m an oxymoron (or maybe just a moron). I couldn’t stand to hear about it when it was first unfolding, but when work sent me home, I put pen to paper. Maybe it’ll be one of the reads for people fifty years from now who want to know what some of us did during this time… but it turned out to be a good thing for me. True, true, I don’t want to read about it in a non-fic sense (talk about saturation!), but fiction does have its merits.
Maybe living in the west as opposed to the east has made it different from some aspects, but there’s no denying books will have their place. It was good to be able to do something fun with it, and am just about to put it to my first beta reader. Who knows? I’m hoping it’s worth it.