What do you read when you’re struggling to read what you usually read?

Or to put it another way, what’s your junk food/comfort read?

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    1 year ago

    This makes me sound like a total wanker but I reread my favorite Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. I find them both very comforting because generally nice people end up happy in the end.

    • wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      Definitely with you there on Jane Austen. I like that ultimately everyone gets married and is happy (even if that’s not my idea of a happy ending necessarily)

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        1 year ago

        It’s their idea of happy, though, which is what’s important for upset-me apparently!

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      1 year ago

      Love Jane Austen! I feel a pleasant coziness when I re-read her works as well. I recently found annotated editions of Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey at a second hand bookshop that were really interesting. It offered a bit of historical context, explanation of games or dances the characters would do, insight into the daily life of people of that time, etc. I highly recommend grabbing a copy if you find one.