GUEST POST: The Journey Home: Reading Romance While Sheltering in Place by Pam Rosenthal

Note from Janine: Guest poster and romance author Pam Rosenthal, whose novella A House East of Regent Street is being published in digital format for the first time tomorrow, has contributed the lovely essay below.

How do you read during a pandemic? For facts or for escape? Survival information in the baleful here and now, or a reminder of how life ought to be?

For me it’s all of the above. But when it’s time to go to sleep – especially if I actually want to get to sleep in times like this – I n...