I went to B&N today and struggled finding something that caught my attention. These days I’m looking to feel something when I read (I lost my teen son this summer). And finally was able read again — The Nightingale. I was more than halfway finished with book 5 in ACOTAR series when he passed and decided I could finish this. I did pick up Kristen Hannah’s The Women while there today, but looking to keep my mind occupied for awhile so please give me whatever has moved you!
I’m not one to shy away from fantasy (ACOTAR type, not so much anime), thriller, horror, romance, fiction, historical fiction. If you’ve read anything that does revolve around child loss, I will definitely look into it too! Thanks so much!
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Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Very sorry for your loss. A book that may help you is Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. It deals with loss, but also with survival. On the same theme, but with a male perspective, there’s the Frank Bascombe series by Richard Ford, beginning with The Sportswriter.
My most memorable read is The Magus by John Fowles. I’ve read it about 20 times since the first time 35 years ago.
Stay strong!
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer is a wonderful novel about a forty something woman who wakes up to discover she’s the last person alive. It’s set in the mountains of Austria in the mid twentieth century. She is at a friend’s hunting cabin for a few days of vacation when the event happens. The actual cause of the massive change is slightly scifi I guess but the story is not. It’s an intimate story of a single person’s memories told through reflections she records a year or so afterwards. She has no technology, just her perseverance and a few animals. The book is laden with both loss and acceptance. It is such an engaging novel but it does confront the inevitable, unreasonable fact that to love is to face loss. We are owed no one. I loved this story.
The House in the Cerulean Sea and Station Eleven are two books that I ate up super quick and made me love reading again. Two very different vibes but both quite whimsical I would say. Both deeply meaningful to me and make me see more magic in the world