A Text Adventure: On Reading During Lockdown

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Keywords:

literary geographies in isolation, reading, collecting, video games,

Abstract

A series of reflections on trying to read during lockdown.

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Published

2020-12-23

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Thinking Space

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