Back when the coronavirus was considered a global emergency and lockdown was in order, I found myself having to change my library items from physical pick-ups to digital on Kindle. One of them was Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan.
It’s a contemporary about a woman, as the title suggests, opening a new bakery in a town she’s moved into. Along the way, she finds herself taking care of an injured bird and getting close to a beekeeper. I found it being the light read I definitely needed at the time.
If you had one, what was it? I noticed that House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune was often cited as one on BookTube.
None heh. The pandemic was the biggest reading slump of my life. I did find a lot of comfort in a macabre mansion puzzle based on edgar allan poe’s stories though. Not sure what that says about me.
Edit to add a link for the curious: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m26132756533/?sv=lg
I feel you on the massive reading slump. Reading was historically my primary coping mechanism that got me through some really hard times, so I was completely blindsided by not being able to utilize that during the pandemic. It was like my brain had been hijacked by a completely different person. I started doing amigurumi and learning birdsongs to try to stay sane.
Yeah this. I was just playing animal crossing to survive.
Same, massive reading slump that lasted from the beginning of the pandemic until 2022. At the time I was listening to true crime 24/7. It was weirdly comforting to me. The only thing that got me back into reading was the Harry Potter books.
Haha same, I wasn’t reading at all! For me it was also puzzles, done while watching kdramas