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Love in the Time of Covid

A Memoir in 50 Essays

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By: Ian Patrick
Narrated by: Michael Richard
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Love in the Time of Covid is a memoir in fifty short essays written during the Covid era between 2020 and 2024. The essays describe the author's responses to media reports, debates, and public commentaries on a range of current affairs during the course of the pandemic. His primary focus is on the poisoning of social discourse during this period, when there was 'no love lost' in conflicts between adversarial parties.

©2025 Ian Patrick (P)2025 Ian Patrick Media Studies Social Sciences Memoir
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This was a book filled with revelations for me. I had no idea that all of these lies were being told. The author exposes them but more importantly he provides the evidence so that we can see it with our own eyes and hear it with our own ears. He makes it clear that he is not overly fond of Trump but he also shows how those who hate the man will go to any lengths to lie about him. We all need to have some balance in this matter and this book is a good way to start, for me. The narration by Michael Richard is very good. There were a few pauses between chapters that could have been shorter, but apart from that it was very good.

A great revelation about truth, and enthralling.

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I listened to this over two days. At first I was caught by the opening prefatory remarks and the first chapter, then I was worried because I thought the politics were conservative. Then I listened more and realised that it was not a conservative position - it was a common sense viewpoint, as he highlighted examples of outrageous media misrepresentations of the facts. Then I trusted him completely as he dissected many of those misrepresentations and showed - example by example - the evidence for what he was saying. I'm a complete convert to his point of view about the media, now. The strange thing is that I thought I was going to be reading a crime novel, because I received a code to listen to the audiobook (probably because I had bought some of the author's books and had enjoyed them).

I look forward to his next book. I hope he deals with the Ukraine, and gives an analysis of the Trump Administration's second term (this book ends about three weeks before Trump took office for his second term).

This changed my mind

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Very good. This is a far cry from the author's crime thrillers but in its own way it shows a detective at work: hunting for evidence and data and proving the media wrong. Very good analyses, and short. I liked the occasional humour, too.

The research in this book reveals a real detective

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I thoroughly enjoyed the author's crime books a few years ago and was surprised that I received a complimentary code from Audible for this book, inviting me to review it in any way I saw appropriate. Well, I don't really like autobiographical books, but then I realised it was not autobiographical but a memoir of the covid years, so I listened to it.

I'm glad I did. I learned so much, and it answered so many questions I had about the way in which media were distorting things. The closing chapter repeats some of what was said in earlier chapters, but it is well worth listening to it. I liked the advice the author gave to his Phd student: "stop looking for what you're trying to find, and search, instead, for what you MIGHT find". This book is exactly doing that. It was very illuminating. I also liked the comment, to a person who said that 'The Guardian' newspaper "gave him all the news needed" when the author suggests that what that person REALLY meant was "all the news KNEADED'. I loved that.
Susan Vookes, Portland (Dorset)

A good idea: looking for what one might find

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I ended up on the writer's newsletter because I have read a couple of his crime thrillers over the years - and really liked them - but wasn't so sure when I got a complimentary code to access his audiobook, because memoirs were not my favourite reading matter. But, boy, have I changed my mind now. This was very informative and made me think how much I have been taken in by false news. This book has straightened out my thinking, quite a lot. I got the kindle version in addition to the audiobook so that I could check on the links to videos and essays and news-clips, and I was thoroughly impressed by the writer's research and attention to detail. I'll most surely listen again and again to this book, in my car (I travel a lot).

The narration was very good, too. And chapter 44 on the failures of so-called fact-checkers and partisan cub reporters, and chapter 45 on the total bias and prejudice of so-called "top" news sources like "The Economist" should be required reading for anyone who thinks they can trust their favourite newspapers. You can't! Everyone is biased when it comes to politics.

I'm converted to memoirs now

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