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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.

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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 read the author's crime thrillers a few years ago and was put onto his mailing list. So after buying those early books myself, this time I received a complimentary code but was specifically asked to review it as I saw fit, with no strings attached. So here goes.

I had mixed feelings about the narration voices of those earlier books, but this time the narration is very good. Nice pace and diction and timbre, and very clear and articulate.

The book itself is very important: the examples that illustrate what the author is saying are sometimes shocking: anyone who has heard the phrase 'fake news' should understand that that is the reality these days: don't trust the media because everything the main broadcasters and newspapers say is determined by their political leaning, left or right. In the case of the USA the statistics - as backed up by the research that the author points to - show that the dominant leaning in most broadcasters, cable TV, and newspapers, is left-wing. So during the Biden presidency there were more partisan misrepresentations than ever before. Anyway, it is refreshing to read someone who proves his point of view with examples, so that you can't just reduce his arguments to being a partisan viewpoint.

This is a very well researched and very well argued set of 50 very short essays. I don't give it five stars because he doesn't cover the current Trump presidency - although he does complete the book just before Trump took over - and neither does he deal with the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Maybe he'll write another book soon.

Well researched and argued, excellent narration

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I was very pleased to hear the audio version of this book, and, while listening, to have at my elbow the kindle version, with its links to the evidence of the accuracy of the author's assertions. These assertions I initially responded to with the thought: "you can't be serious: they would surely not have said that!". Blow me down, at those links I saw the evidence in stark, undeniable clarity. The lies, misrepresentations, and untruthful assertions were conscious idealogical manipulations that took place during the covid period (4-5 years from 2020 to 2024, as framed by the author) and they are now very shocking in retrospect.

So the book became a kind of thriller as I couldn't wait for the writer's expose of the next lies. He didn't disappoint me. How did we all accept the outrageous claims of the mainstream media? The claim that 215 dead babies lay buried at Kamloops was one of the most outrageous of the lies, and the BBC was as guilty as anyone in perpetrating this outrageous claim, and then doubling down on it.

Anyone listening to this book must surely now be sceptical of the mainstream media. Yet this comes at a time when the powers that be are going in the opposite direction: trying to suppress those who challenge the mainstream and calling them conspiracy theorists when in fact they are doing the job that those mainstream journalists SHOULD be doing. I remember that extraordinary press conference when Biden spent the time talking about ice-cream and the "journalists" laughing and joking with him about ice cream flavours instead of interrogating him, asking questions about his envisaged policy, and so on.

I shall listen to this book again and again. It has so many lessons. It is really good. The voice artist is excellent: clear and resonant.

A totally gripping story of the period

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I read The Ryder Quartet nearly four years ago, very quickly, in about a week, and really liked it. Why I gave it only four stars I don't know. Maybe because, at the time, it was a new feel for me from a new writer. Strange characters and accents but gripping and very well written. Now I have listened to this audiobook right through, in the course of one day, checking every now and then with the digital version for the purposes of checking out the videos and lectures and podcasts that the author was referring to. It all made for compulsive viewing. I should point out that I received a complimentary audiobook voucher but only after I had bought the ebook. This was a really good listen and definitely a very good read.

Five stars this time

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I thought this was going to be like the crime thrillers Ian Patrick has written, but it's not. It's very different. But it still shows his very good writing skills. I don't agree with everything he says but I must say he has changed my mind about a lot of untruthful things I previously just accepted from the media. The recent BBC scandal shows that Patrick's arguments are both accurate and very important. In fact, he talks about the Panorama scandal in his chapter nine. It's well worth reading. His words have come to pass - he was absolutely correct.

The narrator of the audio book is very good. It's a clear strong voice and the diction is sharp.

A different kind of thrill, but very good

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