JULIANE ROEMHILD: The pandemic may be officially over, but its effects continue to reverberate: One in three people feel lonely, and one in six experience severe loneliness and mental health services are more stretched than ever. It takes a certain amount of optimism to consider reading groups as an antidote to the seismic shock ofContinue reading “Shared Reading: A Cure for Loneliness?”
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Shared Reading: Connecting Through Stories
ANTONIA VOGLER: Shared Reading is a special form of book club. A ‘Reader Leader’ guides sessions in which short stories, book excerpts and poems are read aloud on site and discussed (Shared Reading, n.d.). The discussion focuses on personal feelings and associations with the text (rather than, for example, the author or period of theContinue reading “Shared Reading: Connecting Through Stories”
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