Bookish News Round Up March 2020

I love collecting bookish news and articles that I find interesting to share with you all when they’ve accumulated. Here’s today’s Bookish News Round-Up!

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On its COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World page, Book Riot has compiled countless fantastic articles taking a literary approach to the uncertain times we face. Some of my favorite pieces include “Advice from Where the Crawdads Sing on Coping with Social Isolation” and “How Pride and Prejudice Characters Would React to Social Distancing.”

The New York Times published a Boston E.R. doctor’s poetry about the Coronavirus here, and it’s heartbreaking. “My stomach twists and fingers shake/as I prepare to work the battleground/the place I’ve always loved and felt at home/is now a field of droplets sprayed across a room/or lurking on a handle or a sink to find their way/inside our trusting hands or mouths or eyes...”

I just about screamed when I read that Ernest Hemingway was quarantined for an entire summer due to the Spanish Flu with his mistress, his angry wife, his contagious, sick, toddler son (named Bumby), AND Bumby’s nanny. Apparently, Hemingway’s mistress would climb into his marital bed for breakfast each morning with him and his wife. I half wish he’d written about his summer on the Riviera instead of The Old Man and the Sea, but this article will have to do.

Celebrities have taken to social media with children’s books in tow, and I’m here for this incredibly cute means of bringing joy while we’re all stuck indoors! Even if you don’t have a little one running around, it’s totally worth watching Amy Adams do her best dinosaur impression here.