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.

  • ssin14@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Stand by Stephen King. I’ve read it twice before but dove right back in. I just kept thinking “well at least Covid doesn’t seem to be nearly as bad as Captain Tripps” and found comfort in that. I don’t know why.

    • hollyslowly@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I watched Contagion multiple times (and reread The Stand) during the pandemic for the same reason.

    • perseidot@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I binged on pandemic books and films: The Stand, Train to Busan, The Girl With All The Gifts, Mexican Gothic, Sean of the Dead…

      Anything with a contagion in it, I was there for it.

      Love me some catharsis.

    • thebeardedcats@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I liked the parallels between people running and unintentionally spreading the illness and people storming grocery stores for toilet paper maskless

    • Sea_Swan_2767@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      LOL me too! And it was a good reminder to be a good person and meet everyone with kindness. I paired it with Spillover for a hard science look at zoonotic disease evolution.