I think I need to stay off of all social media save for BlueSky for the next couple of weeks or so, it's too dang depressing. #BookSky 💙📚 I need some comfort reads, what do you have for me? Self recs welcome! I'm talking some Anne of Green Gables level of comfort. (Which is my 10/10 marker)
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Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
It is great for understanding how we got here. Non-fiction that is very readable.
I highly recommend.
Musk - Bezos - Zuck are all Nazis and I will not support anyone on those sites!
Valdemar has been a favorite haunt since the 90s (I’m old). 😀
Robin Carr
https://www.amazon.com/Summersong-Novel-Luisa-Perkins-ebook/dp/B09F8N7B1N/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=PN3GRT4W33W6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-fm3SwosUk07xVC53E2LBuKx5AsN5-GFGrR4xl3NqRs.laqHWSMPWVK45m_WUE76dSqekurmVCuHSsxhOC9oBxE&dib_tag=se&keywords=summersong+luisa+perkins&qid=1737495598&sprefix=summersong+luisa+perkins%2Caps%2C241&sr=8-1
Thank the god, that first exist, for Libby and Booksky!
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/6223257
These are definitely trying times.
Fantasy
-The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
-The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
SciFi
-Quarter Share (and series) and The Wizard’s Butler by Nathan Lowell
-The Wayfarers series and Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers
-The Lonely Hearts Book Club and The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
My go-to comfort reads are the Girl Meets Duke series by Tessa Dare. HistRoms always pull me out of a funk. 😆
First 3 books are kinda rough but also very short, but it eventually grows into one of the best stories ever about doing what's right no matter what
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Out-Dale-Friends-Fall-Love-ebook/dp/B09V6JBGFZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1BYIP9S4240KV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tC3ZrIGnSiJC41hKGza8jQ.XOFench7ZW_1el9w5tmPJJcwYaTgOJD5hC1KxQlG5R4&dib_tag=se&keywords=takeout+with+dale+-+callie+endicott&qid=1733893247&sprefix=takeout+with+dale+-+callie+endicott%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-1
A fun & sweet #Romance
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJQ2LYL7?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8gFoXoCq8KtsoOZHLF2m0xMM9O0zOmWk56x29Z3EhW2z78H7t1ut3otv1OBZu-JEhhaydah7PEEbctGOyhZOAi57HZZG-aiEq49-mz-1hxWWf8yj1iNpp-xXEm-6cHn8.7ebL_cEWzcK09TZaXZlEHU3QfSVFo0qiVnvdsgUxFsI&dib_tag=AUTHOR
I have a serious, chronic illness so it could happen.
Otherwise, I'm gone.
I deleted my other accounts. I saw one of social media CEOs doing a Nazi salute. Then I saw another social media CEO sitting calmly next to him. There is nothing I can do to fix it, but I do not have to participate and I won't.
Actual comfort read: Perks of being a wallflower
Sweet but with real depth
One of my comfort reads is The Green Knowe chronicles. Nice to read in paper; audio narrated beautifully by Simon Vance.
Also, I quite all my soc. med. accounts. It's quiet in my brain.
It’s VERY cozy and comfy. Think Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli levels.
1 - anything Fredrik Backman. Tread lightly bc his books aren’t necessarily escapism as they often deal with heavy topics. But every character is so deeply human, and that brings me comfort.
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I am currently re-reading Anne McCaffrey’s Rowan and killashandra series’!