I bought her both these books. She loved them. But right now her life needs some positivity. What would you suggest after reading these?
Posted Jan 9, 2023, 3:00 PM UTC
Legends and Lattes, House in the Cerulean Sea
Ordered!
😊I hope she loves them
House on the Cerulean Sea! It's a total departure, but left me with warm fuzzies for days.
I came here to post this, so yeah...seconded
Ordered!
If she’s looking for nonfiction I’d suggest:
Self Compassion by Kristin Neff or honestly any book from Brene Brown
For fiction:
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series by Louise Penney - a super cozy mystery series with like 18 books so perfect if she like the genre and wants to read a book here and there between more challenging/darker reads
I order Self Compassion and The House in the Cerulean Sea!
For memoirs, Born a Crime, Kitchen Confidential, Whatever you Do Don't Run,
James Herriot books and Gerald Durell's Corfu Trilogy, the Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables, see if she likes Terry Pratchett. Try Wyrd Sisters or Going Postal. Jan Karon's Mitford books
Edit A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dakota by Norris
I ordered a James Herriot book, Whatever you Do Don't Run, and Corfu Trilogy!
All Creatures Great and Small. Best pick-me-up book I've ever read
FYI I ordered this! Just forgot to comment here. I commented elsewhere. Thanks!
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is beautiful and restorative.
{How to Walk a Puma} is a gun travel memoir
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
She absolutely loves this book!
What genres is she interested in? I read ACOTAR series and it is easily one of my favorites. Such good reads if she likes romance fantasy. If she likes poetry, Pablo Neruda is great. If she’s a romantic she’ll love them I think. They’re in Spanish but the english version is great too. You can buy her a book of his collected poems or simply look them up and have her read them or better yet you can read them to her! I recommend Soneto XVII. Hope this helps!
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert is fantastic.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
There is some hard, sad bits but you'll be crying laughing most of the time that it's worth it.
Ordered!
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. It is so fun and like nothing else. It’s about a high school girls field hockey team in the 80s from a town that is basically Salem, MA, and they discover they can harness the supernatural to help them at field hockey 😆
I also read “I’m Glad My Mom Died” and then I read “Flowers in The Attic” which is almost as upsetting. Now I am reading “All Creatures Great and Small” by James Herriot. I’m only about half way through but I’m really enjoying it, just a simple story about a vet that goes to work in 1930s Yorkshire, meets a pretty girl etc. Nice change of pace from murder and sexual abuse and incest.
Ordered!
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Normally I am good at the depressing books, but I went too far this time
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Yes my 17yo sister is going to read it as she loved Sam & Cat but I told her to be careful and stop if it gets too much. It will be hard to see someone she loved so much as a child speaking about those experiences