I enjoy history, investigative journalism, political/social theory and memoirs.
Into Thin Air and The Body Keeps Score are two Non-Fiction I really enjoyed. But I favorite books are One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mrs. Dalloway, The Iliad.
Also curious if anyone has read When We Cease to Understand the World or The Return by Hisham Marat and would recommend them?
I have an 18mo son who resembles Godzilla in screeching and destruction so I’m limited on time to do things for myself so I need something that will transport me away from my destroyed, noisy home while stirring the inner creative empath that’s been dormant after years of neglect.
by MrsBigglesworth-_-
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Have you read Nightbitch? I think you might need to read this, even though it’s not what you are asking for.
For more on point recs:
Body Keeps Score: Anything by Brene Brown (I found Rising Strong to be my fave, but you may connect more with her other work.)
Into Thin Air: Endurance by Alfred Lansing, or maybe Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Jitterbug Perfume (one of my all time faves, magical realism.)
Big hugs!
Edit: Out of the box, but also try Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby (short story collection, which may be good between bouts with your little Godzilla.)
>Into Thin Air … I really enjoyed
If you enjoyed that, maybe try Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. Similar content, very different perspective. And if you like that, he’s got a bunch of other books (I can vouch for the non-fiction, never read his fiction).