Pace Yourself
What Amy Arthur, Author Of Pace Yourself, Is Reading Right Now
Over the last few years we have seen a lot about energy limiting conditions, such as with the advent of Long Covid entering into our collective lexicon. It’s important that we continue talking about these conditions, what they mean, and what we can do. I myself am a Long Covid individual; I struggle daily with the fatigue and off-balance-ness. The UK’s Covid Inquiry notes the lack of women in leadership - and how this impacted us all.
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Amy Arthur is the upcoming debut author of Pace Yourself, a deep dive into the mythical concept of pacing. This is touted often as the ‘cure all’ approach to varying disabilities and illnesses - yet is poorly understood. And here at last is a book that puts patients first.
Pace Yourself is out next month. To celebrate, there will be an extra interview on the paywall - and you can opt in to a year long subscription to get access. Plus, there’s a massive discount right now!
Pace Yourself is out next month; you can get your copy on pre-order here.
What book are you currently reading?
At the moment I am reading Night Terrors by Alice Vernon which is a non fiction book all about poor sleep, dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, that sort of thing. It talks about Alice’s own experience with Parasomnias, as they’re called, but also the stories that we’ve told, now and in the past about dreams and nightmares, and what they seem to mean to us, and I’m just fascinated by people’s experience of sleep, having [had] poor sleep for quite some time. I’m actually really enjoying hearing about sleep through the ages.
What was the last book you finished and what did you think about it?
The last book I finished reading was actually a fiction book. It was The Bell by Iris Murdoch and this is the second Iris Murdoch book I’ve read this year. And I am so far loving her writing. I think she’s just got such an amazing way of capturing the kind of mundane and simple things that people experience. And also, what I loved about The Bell, was that there was kind of a queer sub plot to it, which I wasn’t expecting, and it was just sort of delightful, to see queer stories pop up where it’s not a big deal, it’s just natural, and it felt really really lovely. And it’s a great book, definitely recommend.
What book are you currently looking forward to reading?
The book that I am most looking looking forward to reading next is Unmasked by Ellie Middleton. I just, I’ve heard so many good things, and obviously Ellie is fantastic. She’s a great person to follow on social media and just feel like you’re not alone, and I just, I can already tell that her book is going to be one of those comforting things that I read and am reminded of just, my brain isn’t broken, this is just me, and I’m just different, and there are a lot of people out there with those things, differences that I experience day to day. Yeah, I can’t wait for Unmasked.
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What is your favourite book?
My favourite book is a really tough one to answer. So fiction wise, my favourite book, or the one that I read most often, re-read most often, is The Time Travellers Wife. I just think it’s great and so clever, and I wish I could write something that is that kind of, an honest depiction of what life like is but with this amazing, magical realism element that feels so natural and just really lends itself to great storytelling.
So, that’s my favourite fiction. Favourite non fiction, actually thinking about this, I’d say it was Explaining Humans by Dr Camila Pang. It won the Royal Society’s Book Prize a few years ago, and it’s kind of understanding the world through the eyes of a scientist, but actually through the eyes of someone who is Autistic and who has ADHD, and it was the first book that I read by a Neurodivergent author and I honestly, I think I cried several times reading it. It was just so brilliant and comforting and so clever as well. I learned a lot about science in the process so, that’s a book I know I gave to a lot of people as gifts.