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.

    • meeeehhhhhhh@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      This is mine!! I started reading it in late February/early march of 2020. I was standing in line at a fish fry reading it on Libby while people around me discussed whether this whole pandemic thing would really be that bad. It felt too real, so I closed it and didn’t open it again for about a year. When I could stomach again, I finished it and felt hope unlike anything I had experienced in a long time

    • alterVgo@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      So was I! Such weirdly perfect timing, though. I actually found it quite comforting.

    • TeikaDunmora@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      I was reading Spillover by David Quammen, a nonfiction book about zoonotic diseases. The final chapter talked about how the next big zoonotic disease outbreak was likely to be a coronavius. 😬

    • Thecryptsaresafe@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      I thought it would freak me out but it really nailed home that even when we can’t see people we leave ripples in their lives, and more to the point that the end of the world isn’t the end of the world