It kills me to even type this 💔
My mom was diagnosed with dementia and right now it seems mild but it’s progressing. She is an avid reader and usually reads mystery, suspense and political thrillers. Lately they’ve been giving her terrible nightmares. She wants to find good books badly. I’m a thriller reader myself so I can’t help much with recommendations and I’ve Googled a bit.
Can anyone please recommend good books that are light but great reads with no crazy deaths or things that will give her nightmares and that aren’t cheesy?
Also, is there something good along the lines of Downton Abbey?
Thank you so much!
by IntrovertingEagle
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I’m not good with the Downton Abbey period stuff, but otherwise things that I think are both light and interesting reads:
*Remarkably Bright Creatures* by Shelby Van Pelt is an adorable story about an aquarium worker befriending an octopus, with a side plotline about a young man traveling to that area to try to find his biological father.
*All We Were Promised* by Ashton Lattimore is a pre-civil war story about 3 girls (1 enslaved, 1 runaway former slave, and 1 free black woman) who become friends and struggle to save the enslaved girl. It’s mostly quite heartwarming.
*Anxious People* by Fredrik Backman is absolutely adorable. A bunch of different people with their own problems go to an apartment viewing and then are held hostage – it’s not actually frightening in anyway, it’s a nice story about getting to know people and how their lives sweetly come together.
*Lessons in Chemistry* by Bonnie Garmus is about a woman scientist being unable to continue science (due to sexism of the 1960s) so she ends up on her own very successful chemistry-oriented cooking show.
All of them (except *All We Were Promised*) do border on cheesy, but only because they are heartwarming, which it sounds like is what you’re generally looking for. They’re still mostly well-written, intriguing stories with good characters, not cheesy as in juvenile/embarrassing.