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What we're reading: Festival co-founder Sian Hoyle
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- 18 May 2020 - 15:46pmDue to Covid-19 we have had to postpone our Festival, scheduled for 29 May- 6 June 2020, but we are committed to bringing you an extended and extensive Autumn Edition. If you would like to see what we were planning for the Festival, you can take a look at our proposed Festival programme
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- 18 May 2020 - 15:46pmMy initial attitude to lockdown was a measured anticipation of the forthcoming guilt-free pleasure of spending many hours reading all those books I just never seem to get round to - and rediscovering some old favourites. Just treat it like a normal summer holiday I thought: three or four books a week consumed at any hour of the day or night.
So why then, eight weeks in, have I only completed three books? I’ve attempted at least 10 more, but abandoned them after only a few pages or chapters. I just can’t concentrate on anything for long and it’s a reading experience I’ve never encountered before.
So my three books – not by any stretch of the imagination my usual fodder:
I live in hope that I will fall in love with reading again but, for now, it seems to only be box sets of old favourites like Brideshead Revisited and The West Wing that seem to engage me.
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