What to read when the sky is falling - Silent Book Club
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Doomreading, pandemic fiction, and Europe at war
I’m having a hard time concentrating this week. Instead of reading a book before bed, I’ve been reading the news, which is like choosing insomnia for your nighttime adulting elective. Studies in Sweet Dreams? The Physics of Weighted Blankets (Duvets for Dummies)? Nah, sign me up for 2am Debate Team! Topic: Is the world ending? I was born in the 70s, grew up in the 80s, graduated from high school and college in the 90s, and crossed the Y2K threshold into adulthood. I was 25 and coasting on the fumes of the first dot com boom when the Twin Towers fell on September 11th, 2001. For the first…
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