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.

    • Asher_the_atheist@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.