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.
The Stand by Stephen King. I’ve read it twice before but dove right back in. I just kept thinking “well at least Covid doesn’t seem to be nearly as bad as Captain Tripps” and found comfort in that. I don’t know why.
I binged on pandemic books and films: The Stand, Train to Busan, The Girl With All The Gifts, Mexican Gothic, Sean of the Dead…
Anything with a contagion in it, I was there for it.
Love me some catharsis.
I started The Stand at the beginning of 2020 lol it added such a nice feeling to the creepy factor.
I liked the parallels between people running and unintentionally spreading the illness and people storming grocery stores for toilet paper maskless
LOL me too! And it was a good reminder to be a good person and meet everyone with kindness. I paired it with Spillover for a hard science look at zoonotic disease evolution.
I watched Contagion multiple times (and reread The Stand) during the pandemic for the same reason.