6 page-turners to get you out of a reading slump
by Washington Square News
Washington Square News— “Severance” by Ling Ma “Severance,” published in August 2018, is eerily evocative of the COVID-19 pandemic that followed two years later. The book follows Candace Chen, a young woman who is a first-generation immigrant living and working in New York, through a post-apocalyptic tale of the fictional Shen Fever pandemic. Entirely isolated in New York, This story 6 page-turners to get you out of a reading slump appeared first on Washington Square News.
Raw Story—'Chaos agent': Jan. 6 defendant with 'claimed left-wing ties' gets 6 years in prison. John Sullivan, a convicted rioter in the January 6 Capitol attack, has been sentenced to six years in prison, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Friday.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth cited Sullivan as a "chaos agent" at sentencing, saying that he was acting not out of support for former President Donald Trump, as most of the rioters were, but simply for the sake of causing social disruption and violence.A Utah-based man who describes himself as a "political activist," Sullivan was convicted...
The Guardian—The joys of reading – you never know what the pages hold. Phil Barlow, Peter Bunyan and Ron Rooney respond to letters about discovering new authors and reading more widelyI refer to the correspondence on getting back your reading groove (Letters, 28 April). I started my working life at 16 as an apprentice in the building industry, soon to progress to a chartered surveyor on day release and night school.I am a practical person and very involved in local communities, including a Scout leader most of my life. Reading has never been easy for me, and with...
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