What’s wrong with being alone? Reading Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City sparked this conversation in my head as I speak about how we can embrace solitude, how being alone is as necessary as being in company, and how solitude can be an absolute, necessary bliss. In the end, we are all experiencing this collective feeling of human loneliness together.

How do I motivate myself to read more books? Find out as I read an excerpt from I’d Rather be Reading by Guinevere de la Mare & share some tips on picking up that book instead of your phone. (ps. the title of the book is supposed to be ‘I’d Rather be Reading’ and not ‘The Art of Reading’. apologies for the error!)

A short introduction on what Between the Pages is all about. You can listen to this podcast on Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Radioplus, Overcast and Anchor.