Hi! Life is currently very stressful right now. Things aren’t being communicated to me at work, potential break up, and just found out my epilepsy is back. I need a book that will give me a boost/ break emotionally! No heavy material or darkness please. Something funny, uplifting, or an adventure novel. I’ll read young adult too so no limit there!
by LolaBean52
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**The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy**, if you haven’t read it yet. All volumes of the series.
I hope things get better soon! That sounds so hard.
Any P G Wodehouse Jeeves novel. The latter are delightful fluff and total fun. Try AUNTS AREN’T GENTLEMEN – but any of the Jeeves novels will do. His others are also fun, but Jeeves is where to start. Enjoy!
1. What you are looking for is in the library – Best book I read this year
2. She and her Cat
3. Legends and Lattes
4. Anxious People
5. The Authenticity Project
6. My lady Jane (preferably the audiobook)
“Latter” because I also suggested Austen, but she’s more an acquired taste. I adore her but it’s a different experience. I hope you find something you love and please let us know how your new book adventure went.
Wow! You’re going through it. Sending good vibes your way, sorry to hear it’s been bumpy
Not sure what you’re into but here are a few that have lifted me up!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – funny, fast paced and there’s a series if you want to get stuck in
Midnight Library by Matt Haig – filled with wonder and hope, pure escapism
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, Roy Bradbury – funny, touching
Legends & lattes by Travis Baldree – just pure comfort, it’s like a warm blanket in a fantasy setting
Stardust by Neil Gaiman – pure escapism, adventure and fun!
The Hobbit by Tolkien for me also feels like a comfort read
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (while some of these are murder mysteries none are graphic) – adventure, investigative
Howls Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones – adventure, endearing characters and wonder
I also find going back to childhood favourites that you haven’t read that have aged well – wether that be chronicles of Narnia, wind in the Willows etc
I’m not a huge comedy romance reader but I feel this might be the genre for you too
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson.
A collection of interconnected stories based in a bar that operates on the premise that
Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increases
Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It has adventure and is overall uplifting. Some characters have experienced sadness/difficulties that make the overall positive theme more compelling.