“I don’t understand how people in our society don’t have more knowledge today than they did in the past. Brit Bennett“I feel like it’s important in these times to read books about the Black experience in the United States,” Diane Starke of El Paso wrote about “The Vanishing Half.”2. I started tracking my reading just before the shutdown, and I’ve read 10 books since life as we know it came grinding to a halt.”AD. Lisa Roberts of Albuquerque epitomized a trend among our readers: a reliance on audiobooks since the pandemic began. Though sales of romantic comedy in print books rose a massive 188 percent, the biggest seller across formats remained contemporary romance followed by historical.

Source: Washington Post September 02, 2020 14:02 UTC