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.
For me, it was the Expanse series. I was really struggling, and I found that my primary form of self soothing (reading books) had become suddenly impossible. I was too restless and agitated, I couldn’t focus, I could barely manage listening to an audiobook while working with my hands, but then I would get overwhelmed by the noise and have to turn it off and start fretting again. Yet I was desperate to get my brain to stop spinning. Then, one day I picked up Leviathan Wakes and something just clicked in my brain. I’m not really into SciFi, but this one caught my attention and I became immersed in it in a way that I hadn’t managed for quite a while. I ended up devouring the series, so grateful to have finally found something that pulled me out of everything that was going on.