With more time at home in this era of social distancing and self-isolation, we've got a lot more time for reading, right? It's hardly so simple. In this new…
, staffers discuss how they're coping with experiences of anxiety and isolation through books. Here, Tyler Aquilina reveals how a long love of audiobooks and biographies is taking on new meaning.entered my life, I'll admit: I loved reading, but there came a point where I couldn’t make time for it. I had an ever-accumulating list of books I wanted to get to, with little hope of crossing any of them off the list.
And lo, I was hooked. Audiobooks quickly supplanted podcasts and music on my work commute, and it wasn’t long before I found my own literary niche: long history books that could fill weeks of sitting in dreadful L.A. traffic. A month or so ago, I was knee-deep in one such colossal work: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s, a study of Abraham Lincoln and his skillful political maneuvering which led the U.S. through the Civil War.
Yet it’s not just the format, but the content, of this particular audiobook that’s helped to alleviate my stress.may seem an odd book to describe as a comfort read, dealing as it does with the greatest crisis America has ever faced. But that’s just it: This book is an apt reminder that our country has faced, and survived, great crises before.
A reassuring thought, indeed, and one we would do well to keep in mind now. It is not toughness, stubbornness, and individualism we require in this moment, but kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy — in our leaders and in ourselves. To make it through this crisis, we need whatFor the latest information on coronavirus , including how to protect yourself and what to do if you think you are sick, please visit coronavirus.gov.
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