For me it was Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. It’s about grief and love❤️
One_Engineering8030 on
Duma key by Stephen King. DUMA space KEY.
While it does have the traditional Stephen King touch of their being more than meets the eye to a story I found it, and especially relaxing read given the setting, which is the Florida Keys. And the time spent by the protagonist recuperating from an injury and his new hobby of painting and spending time at the shore.
For me, it was like a vacation. And it came out of time where I was very stressed, and it was a very nice escape for me personally. It was also the first book I read from King after he began to split his time between Florida and Maine, main being his original Location for decades up until that point. And I really enjoyed the change of setting in many ways, although I still welcome his main setting, and he was writing from the heart in certain ways when introducing a character that was recuperating from an injury, much like king had been doing for several years after being obliterated by a van while Out for a jog.
Anyway, I hope the title of the book comes through here. I am saying it phonetically because I am blind recently blind, and I don’t have a keyboard on this device. But I read this book pretty much the week is released 15 years ago or so, and I only went blind last year. So The stress I was undergoing at the times unrelated to my current visuality, ha ha. I had fun with the Book and I found it to be, in my personal opinion, Stephen King‘s first return to form after the van accident. Yes, he had published before this other books and novels This is the first one where in my opinion, it didn’t come across like he was suffering while writing the book because it was a fully cohesive story where things went a little weird there for a while with the last few books that our tower series and other books published between the accident and key. All right I am rambling now, have a great day.
Celena133 on
Elena Ferrante’s My brilliant Friend series. I read it a few years ago and absolutely loved it. It engrossed me completely and helped me in the sense that I got lost in it and could forget anything around me for a long time. There are themes of pregnancy, motherhood etc. so depending on your loss it may not be good for you.
wooricat on
When I feel down, I like reading old childhood favorites. They’re really comforting. My go-to is Anne of Green Gables.
joyouskunteverlastin on
Okay so this is going to sound very odd but hear me out. When I was at my most depressed I listened to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. These are not at all my typical style of book but they are funny, engrossing, immersive, and absurd. The audiobooks are absolutely amazing so I actually listened to them because taking the time to read was too much for me at the time. The books do grapple with some themes of loss and grief while still being incredibly light hearted in many ways. It was escapism at its finest. There are 8 books and I listened to them all the way through basically without stopping. It really helped me to get my mind off of things and laughing helped me so much through a very dark period. Knowing I could wake up and listen to those books is literally the only thing that got me out of bed.
just-kristina on
I really like The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Super like warm fuzzy in my opinion. I will warn you that there is a part that is occasionally mentioned about the loss of a newborn. Very sad topic but it does not go into a lot of detail and is not long or drawn out
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For me it was Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. It’s about grief and love❤️
Duma key by Stephen King. DUMA space KEY.
While it does have the traditional Stephen King touch of their being more than meets the eye to a story I found it, and especially relaxing read given the setting, which is the Florida Keys. And the time spent by the protagonist recuperating from an injury and his new hobby of painting and spending time at the shore.
For me, it was like a vacation. And it came out of time where I was very stressed, and it was a very nice escape for me personally. It was also the first book I read from King after he began to split his time between Florida and Maine, main being his original Location for decades up until that point. And I really enjoyed the change of setting in many ways, although I still welcome his main setting, and he was writing from the heart in certain ways when introducing a character that was recuperating from an injury, much like king had been doing for several years after being obliterated by a van while Out for a jog.
Anyway, I hope the title of the book comes through here. I am saying it phonetically because I am blind recently blind, and I don’t have a keyboard on this device. But I read this book pretty much the week is released 15 years ago or so, and I only went blind last year. So The stress I was undergoing at the times unrelated to my current visuality, ha ha. I had fun with the Book and I found it to be, in my personal opinion, Stephen King‘s first return to form after the van accident. Yes, he had published before this other books and novels This is the first one where in my opinion, it didn’t come across like he was suffering while writing the book because it was a fully cohesive story where things went a little weird there for a while with the last few books that our tower series and other books published between the accident and key. All right I am rambling now, have a great day.
Elena Ferrante’s My brilliant Friend series. I read it a few years ago and absolutely loved it. It engrossed me completely and helped me in the sense that I got lost in it and could forget anything around me for a long time. There are themes of pregnancy, motherhood etc. so depending on your loss it may not be good for you.
When I feel down, I like reading old childhood favorites. They’re really comforting. My go-to is Anne of Green Gables.
Okay so this is going to sound very odd but hear me out. When I was at my most depressed I listened to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. These are not at all my typical style of book but they are funny, engrossing, immersive, and absurd. The audiobooks are absolutely amazing so I actually listened to them because taking the time to read was too much for me at the time. The books do grapple with some themes of loss and grief while still being incredibly light hearted in many ways. It was escapism at its finest. There are 8 books and I listened to them all the way through basically without stopping. It really helped me to get my mind off of things and laughing helped me so much through a very dark period. Knowing I could wake up and listen to those books is literally the only thing that got me out of bed.
I really like The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Super like warm fuzzy in my opinion. I will warn you that there is a part that is occasionally mentioned about the loss of a newborn. Very sad topic but it does not go into a lot of detail and is not long or drawn out