pickA challenging time, and challenging to write about, which Rosenblum handles with humour, compassion and vulnerability.
While you gain a sense through her entries that there is a diverse and often poverty-stricken populace in her vicinity, that she is dealing with high-density urban apartment housing during the lockdowns, I didn't realize until I read the back, after reading the book, that St. James Town, Toronto 1/?
The need to know...
Never thought of it quite like that, but it rings true...
Oh no! The wreckage! The evidence!
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I reeeeeeeaally, really wanna see a human being make that face now. 😆
“...largely eyes and whichever organ is responsible for purrs.“ 👁️👁️😻🥰
My performance chops are untested, but I would happily accept reading a book aloud in turns as an alternative to dinner conversation that has suddenly turned stilted or stale.
Can we adopt this as a social standard, please?
These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown | 
That, as much as the author being an extrovert quarantining with a partner and cats in a province with Conservative premier Doug Ford 🤢 makes her pandemic experience wildly different from mine.
Rosenblum fights against loneliness, anxiety and boredom, the limited access to friends, family, co-workers, green space and community resources like libraries and activity centres, 1mo
On the more light-hearted side are the regular excerpts of conversations between Rosenblum and her husband. If you enjoy the back and forth featured in Jenny Lawson memoirs, I think you'll get a kick out of these two, good, off-the-walll times. Also featuring feline exploits!
Memoirs written by writers, always a plus. 1mo
⚠️Mention of police murder of Black people, discovery of residential school graves, anti-vaxxers 1mo