I started reading Stardust in the hospital after my baby was born. 6 months later and I only just finished it. In high school, I easy could have read 40 books in that time. I’m trying to get back into reading and I think I could go for a memoir/non-stuffy, non-fiction right now.
Something that’s not a huge downer but can have some level of edge (depending on how it’s told), and preferably shorter, 200ish pages. Basically something a new mom brain can handle emotionally and cognitively
I haven’t read a ton because I’m usually not into non-fiction, but I like those that “read like fiction.” I’ve enjoyed pretty much any of Carrier Fisher’s autobiographies, The Glass Castle, Call the Midwife (I believe I read all of them), and The Day the World Came to Town, and a few others.
TIA!
by asexualrhino
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Why not try a short story collection or essay collection? Easier to manage when you’re caring for a child and don’t have long uninterrupted chunks of time.
For essays/nonfiction:
David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day: humour, memoir/recollections of his life .
Nora Ephron – The Most of Nora Ephron: you may know her as the screenwriter who wrote Sleepless in Seattle among others. Essays about life in general. Funny with some edge.