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.

  • julieannie@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I 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.