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.

  • Hms-chill@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I listened to a lot of Welcome to Night Vale, then bought and read the scripts. “The Glow Cloud” especially has two quotes that really helped me:

    • “The desert seems vast, even endless, and yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.”
    • “We may never fully understand, or, understand at all what it was […] But, and I’m going to get a little personal here, that’s the essence of life, isn’t it? Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they’re happening they feel like the only thing that matters, and you can hardly imagine that there’s a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the Glow Cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find that, as time passes, you remember it less and less”

    The second quote especially hit REALLY different in April of 2020.