julieannie@alien.topBtoBooks•What was a book that actually comforted you when the pandemic first hit?English
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1 year agoI immediately started reading the Percy Jackson series. I’d had it forever and never opened it before but I knew younger fiction was going to be soothing.
I also was mid-reread of the American Girl book with a podcast I was listening to and I doubled down on that.
Then as things went on, I got obsessed with romance books. I did hit some Jenny Colgan here too.
Then as things really went on, I got obsessed with WWII resistance and homeland literature.
Then when I lost someone to Covid, I became obsessed with reading fiction and nonfiction about grief and death and pandemics.
And now I’m just really obsessed with escaping through reading.
I’ve been shocked at how many times people were writing letters and either kept a drafted copy or a carbon copy of the letter they sent too. I love reading about the sources authors use and when I see that, I imagine how thrilled the author must have been. I’ve also read a lot of books that follow census records and like you said, newspapers and other public records.