What’s this? What’s this? There’s colour everywhere…
If you’re not now singing What’s This? from The Nightmare Before Christmas then I simply don’t know what to tell you.
But yes, what is this you may ask, is it a blog post, Emma? Yes! Is it a triumphant return to this blog? Have we kissed COVID-19 and working from home and a worldwide pandemic that only showcases global inequalities more? Are things back to some kind of ‘normal’? No! Far from it! But I have decided that I would like to re-focus and, perhaps, re-prioritise reading again.
As I mentioned in my last post way back in May 2020, COVID-19 and the subsequent work-from-home mandate shook up every part of my routine. As an extremely introverted person, people assumed lockdown would be fine for me. It wasn’t. The little social interaction I previously got from having to get up and get on a train and go to work five days a week in an office was removed from my life entirely and I realised very little remained in my life. Every day since then has felt like a groundhog day and, I’m not going to sugarcoat it, 2020 and 2021 have probably been some of the worst years of my life, an opinion that I know isn’t uncommon. Will 2022 be any better? Well I just don’t know, I hope so, but I’m not an optimistic person as a rule, especially when us all getting through this relies on humanity and compassion and common sense which, I think we all suspect, is hard to come by in some camps.
So, I don’t know what 2022 will bring, or if it will be any better, I don’t know if my anxiety or depression will get worse, or if I’ll learn to manage them better, but what I do know and can control is the fact that I would like to read again. And I would like to talk about my reading on this blog because I think that will help me. Maybe it will also be mildly entertaining for anyone reading it too? I hope so. So you might see some reconstruction going on whilst I figure out a fresh layout and graphics and way of doing things, a bit of a Spring clean but in December, because that makes total sense to me.
So, until my next post (when maybe I’ll feature some of my favourite books that I did manage to read this year), please stay safe and well and keep reading.
The Terror of Knowing 
One response to “What’s this? What’s this?”
I began to sing the song just after reading the title of the post! Sorry to hear how the pandemic affected your life, I hope to read about all the books you loved in the future, and hope this will help you.
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