Interview - Miriam Calleja Shaw

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You have recently published a book called COVID-19and the Virus that Shook the World . It provides a sobering look at virus infections and pandemics, with particular emphasis on the COVID-19 strain. Presently, the cases have diminished in Europe but the spread has moved elsewhere. However, how safe is ‘safe’ at the moment? With the way things are evolving with the ’new’ coronavirus, it’s very difficult to answer this question. The WHO just last weekend warned that the worst may be yet to come. We are certainly witnessing an atrocious amount of deaths and illness in the US. We don’t yet know with certainty which factors are affecting the progression of the pandemic. Indeed we don’t even know about all the symptoms that appear with COVID-19 infection. The relative ‘safety’ is different for everyone, depending on the state of their immunity and certain other factors. For a person with average health who isn’t too old, the danger of getting severely ill may be low – but we need to
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Robert's Recommended Reads: 5 Optimistic Novels

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Robert is a librarian with a superpower: reading. I won't bore you with numbers and statistics - you just have to trust me on this: he reads A LOT. Fortunately for us, he also blogs about it and you can follow his book (and music and film) reviews on The Bobsphere.

 He is also super nice and has given me permission to pilfer some of his posts and re-post them over here. So keep an eye open because you'll be sure to find something to your taste.
At the moment times are tough. Things are at a standstill, lots of people are in quarantine, newspapers and television are focusing on one topic. For someone who is a hypochondriac or suffers from anxiety then these things are creating a mental strain. 
Thus one needs a distraction and here are five books which will help. I do admit that this was a little bit tough as most literature is gloomy and with depressing themes but I managed to scrounge up 5 titles.

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