First - I am so sorry for your loss. My family has experienced this in the past two years. Be so kind and gentle to yourself.
Second - sometimes what helped me in my reading was to get totally far away from what I usually read (heavier lit fic). So I read Project Hail Mary (genre) and things like Four Aunties and a Wedding and Arsenic and Adobo and House on the Cerulean Sea. On the warmer side, I can’t recommend Stanley Tucci’s Taste enough. The stories of his family and good food are so personal and lovely. It’s wonderful on audio.
84 Charring Cross. I gave this book to my mom. She had been in a reading slump. I didn’t know that. But this book made her laugh. Got her out of her slump. We read books, and traded suggestions. She died 10/26/20, cancer. This book and her happiness bring me joy
I lost my best friend to cancer last year, and Teresa Strasser’s book on grief and family -- Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League -- was just what my heart needed. It’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, and also quite funny.
First - I am so sorry for your loss. My family has experienced this in the past two years. Be so kind and gentle to yourself.
Second - sometimes what helped me in my reading was to get totally far away from what I usually read (heavier lit fic). So I read Project Hail Mary (genre) and things like Four Aunties and a Wedding and Arsenic and Adobo and House on the Cerulean Sea. On the warmer side, I can’t recommend Stanley Tucci’s Taste enough. The stories of his family and good food are so personal and lovely. It’s wonderful on audio.
Sending love and healing.
84 Charring Cross. I gave this book to my mom. She had been in a reading slump. I didn’t know that. But this book made her laugh. Got her out of her slump. We read books, and traded suggestions. She died 10/26/20, cancer. This book and her happiness bring me joy
I lost my best friend to cancer last year, and Teresa Strasser’s book on grief and family -- Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League -- was just what my heart needed. It’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, and also quite funny.
Sometimes leaning in to grief/loss is ok...I loved Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Books that have helped me in the immediate wake of grief:
- rereading Inkheart and Narnia, childhood favorites
- Jane Austen’s books on audio
- Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee (not escapist like the other two but essential in my understanding of the journey)
Sending love <3