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.

  • perseidot@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I leaned heavily into catharsis. I was mostly listening to novels as audiobooks:The Stand, The Girl With All The Gifts, WWZ (and lots of other zombie contagion books.)

    Also started a weekly Netflix party for zombie and contagion movies: Sean of the Dead, Train to Busan, WWZ, Girl With All the Gifts, etc.

    I’m a biologist by education, so I also dove into reading everything that was being published about the novel coronavirus and Covid 19. Everything I could get my hands on in terms of scientific papers, but also histories of other epidemics like the black plague and Spanish flu.

    I was consuming info in hyperdrive, but I have a lot of sympathy for people that went into a reading slump, too. That was such a weird time, and US politics made it so much weirder for some of us.