Everyone listens to audiobooks these days. In fact, it’s hard to find a time when we’re not plugged into something. A few years ago a blogger wrote about listening to audiobooks with her boyfriend. That’s rather sweet, but it’s even nicer to read books aloud with your boyfriend.
It used to be a cheap evening in for us, and now it still is: plus, now we have t to stay home. You don’t have to devote a lot of time to the project. Reading a chapter or two every day is a pleasure. Any genre you like, though we tend to stick to short books. I recommend Kurt Vonnegut.
And here are three NEW ONLINE LITERARY PROJECTS
100 Days of Decameron
http://www.iowacityofliterature.org/decameron/
She writes,
As the Great Plague, known as Black Death, was devastating Europe in the middle of the 14th century, Giovanni Boccaccio was writing a book of unparalleled wit and imagination to help rally the sagging spirit of humanity. Written between 1348 and 1352, The Decameron takes place in a Tuscan villa where seven young women, Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta, Elissa, Lauretta, and Emilia, and three young men, Filostrato, Dioneo, and Panfilo, are self-quarantined while the plague is ravaging Florence. Being young and of active disposition, they stave off boredom by establishing a routine – every day they take walks, sing and tell stories.
Then there’s The Decameron Project.
According to the Tor website: “Over on Patreon, award-winning author (and Tor.com contributor) Jo Walton, poet and author Maya Chhabra, and librarian, singer, and SF/F fan Lauren Schiller recently launched the Decameron Project, which aims to provide readers with a new donation-supported short story or novel excerpt every day as long as the world is under threat by the coronavirus.”
Let me know about other “lockdown” projects!.
