What do you read when you’re feeling down?
Has it been a rough couple of days/weeks/years for you?
Have you lost someone recently?
Is it all too much sometimes?
Are there days that just make you sad?
You’re not alone.
We all have days that seem harder than others.. Sometimes it feels like that’s all there is and the struggle to get through each day takes everything you have. Most of us here view reading as a gift, an escape hatch you can depend on, they bring us comfort.
Today’s book tag, I hope, will encourage you to join me in sharing some of those books.
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What makes you sad?
The Art of Letting Go by Rania Naim
I don’t handle change or loss well..
but does anyone?
We often struggle to let some people go especially when they made that decision. We question the universe, we question ourselves and we question everyone around us but we never truly get our answers. Letting someone go takes time, patience and commitment to actively stop ourselves from relapsing and thinking about that person again. The Art Of Letting Go helps you understand why, how and when you should let someone go so you can move on and never look back.
A book/series you read when you’re feeling down:
Charley Davidson Series by Darynda Jones
Book One: First Grave on the Right
I laugh my way through this series every time so whenever I’m feeling down it’s one of the first series I reach for.
Charley sees dead people.
That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light.” But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice.
Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life…and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely.
“You named your breasts?”
I turned my back to him with a shrug. “I named my ovaries, too, but they don’t get out as much.”
“Don’t you think if I was bleeding internally, I’d know somewhere deep inside? Like, internally?”
“My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.
Do you enjoy books that make you cry?
Very rarely will I deliberately choose a book I know will make me sad.. but it does happen. In fact. One of my goals this year is to read more books that are outside of my comfort zone and I’ve chosen a few that will likely have me bawling.
We’ll see how well that goes.
The most heartbreaking book you’ve read:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
A character who’s no stranger to sadness:
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
A TBR book that you know will have you in tears:
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
This book will wreck me.
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MEET THE DOG
WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD
HOW TO BE HUMAN
The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.
“Splendid.” —People
“The perfect book for anyone who knows that compassion isn’t only for humans, and that the relationship between two souls who are meant for each other never really comes to an end. Every now and then I’m lucky enough to read a novel I can’t stop thinking about: this is one of them.” —Jodi Picoult
“It’s impossible not to love Enzo.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human. I loved this book.” —Sara Gruen
A great sounding book with an unhappy title:
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.
The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.
Thank you so much for stopping by!
I hope you enjoyed the books—as much as sad books can be enjoyed, that is.
But before you go..
How are you doing?
Some good choices, I like to read romance when I need a lift.
Thank you! Not my cup of tea but that makes sense.. a lot of romance is about finding happiness.
Oh yes, I bawled like a baby at The Art of Racing in the Rain! As I tend to do with these types of dog books though 😛
I’m really not surprised. I end up with the sniffles from the synopsis alone.. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking the book must be.