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.
I started reading some standalone gothics like Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and DragonWyck by Anya Seton
Something about the whole “young girl goes to this estate where everything isn’t as it seems” was really attractive to me. The Netflix show Haunting of Bly Manor also came out around then so I was watching that as well.
I’m typically a fantasy reader so it was a break from the stress and emotional angst that the real world was already going through. Sometimes people are just batshit crazy and i enjoyed trying to figure it out with the MC in those books!