Anyone want to recommend calm soothing books?
I just checked goodreads to see if anything I read this year qualifies, and nope, I got nothing.
Maybe I've always been here.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sj - Dec 03, 2020 6:28:57 pm PST #26291 of 27939
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy - Dec 03, 2020 6:57:28 pm PST #26292 of 27939
Because books.
I usually go to childhood favorites when I'm looking for a calm read.
Atropa - Dec 03, 2020 7:30:08 pm PST #26293 of 27939
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I know I am an outlier here, but I found The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires kinda soothing? In a way? I get why others don’t, tho’.
meara, if you’re ok with fluffy-sweet YA paranormal, I recommend the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber.
meara - Dec 03, 2020 8:30:44 pm PST #26294 of 27939
I did enjoy Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking! And Goblin Emperor, though it took a while to get into it the first time I read it. Have not heard of aRed Heir!
juliana - Dec 04, 2020 11:28:26 am PST #26295 of 27939
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I found The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires kinda soothing? In a way? I get why others don’t, tho’.
I could see why you do, as the climax/ending is very cathartic, but the gender politics just Got To Me. I had to put it down a few times, I was that furious.
Beverly - Dec 04, 2020 4:36:12 pm PST #26296 of 27939
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Seconding Enchanted April, both book and film.
-t - Dec 04, 2020 4:45:13 pm PST #26297 of 27939
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I tried a sample of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires because that is a really great title, but it seemed strongly not for me. I don't think I got all the way through the sample.
Amy - Dec 04, 2020 4:53:00 pm PST #26298 of 27939
Because books.
Cozy mysteries also work for me. I've been doing a lot of reading as soothing. Oooh, also Alice Hoffman, early stuff. It's something about the cadence of her language as well as the magical realism.
Dana - Dec 04, 2020 5:17:37 pm PST #26299 of 27939
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Robin McKinley.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 05, 2020 12:00:22 am PST #26300 of 27939
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I second the cozy mysteries and early Alice Hoffman. I agree that her language seems magical. My favorite childhood reread is The Old Fashioned Girl, but I also find The Boxcar Chilren and The Five Little Peppers very soothing. Although thinking about it as an adult the Boxcar Children and The Five Little Peppers has terrible trauma in their lives and the older children had too many adult responsibilities! And the gender roles are very heteronormative. But sometimes I just want to live in a Boxcar and make it pretty with a cracked cup I found in the dump, and eat baked potatoes cooked in a fire with not enough utensils!