I have just read Strangers: A Memoir of a Marriage by Belle Burden, The Handmaid's Tale and currently reading The Testaments by Margaret Attwood.
In my nightstand waiting for me are The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin, and The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.
As you can tell, I have a theme of feminine rage and it's taking quite a toll on my mental health especially with everything happening in the world right now. I'm alone in a foreign country and this is my chosen main form of entertainment but I'm feeling burnt out.
Can you suggest any books that are light-hearted, hopeful, non-stressful stuff I can read between chapters especially if I am mentally drained? Any genre is fine. I would appreciate it if it has a paperback edition.
by Elegant-Forever-3776
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I also need this. The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo is pretty Good
Starter Villain and/or The Kaiju Preservation Society, both by John Scalzi. Fun, lighthearted, and very funny. Fast reads too!
The hobbit – also lighthearted and a delight at any age
A Little Princess and/or The Secret Garden, both by Frances hodgson Burnett – because sometimes you need a Victorian fairy tale lol
And honestly, the L Frank Baum Oz books are short, bonkers, and fun as heck
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
Anything by Carl Hiaasen!
Any of the Terry Pratchett Discworld books are probably good for this. Guards! Guards! is often recommended as a good place to start, although if you’d like to read about some less depressing things happening to women then Wyrd Sisters could also be a good place to start