My comfort read is anything by Jane Austen. I also believe we can gain great comfort from the stories of other’s uncertainties because we realize that there can be life after the horrific turmoil. For the in between time can be truly beautiful; that space before the next upheaval.
Anne of Green Gables is magic, and I recommend Anne with an E. When I got over the fact that it doesn't follow the books as I would like it was amazing. Rereading Harry Potter right now works for me, and maybe I will pop into North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. That one always brings out the best in me. Happy reading!
Just came to this video for a few more recommendations! Thanks so much for recommending Georgette Heyer, I didn't know her or, never paid attention to her books and now I'm in love, they have been keeping me sane during these times!! Frederica is so far my favourite, trying to not read all of her books in a row so I can savour them!
I'm so glad you have discovered Georgette Heyer! I remember when I first discovered her and was just so overwhelmed with how much I loved her books and that she had written so many- so many treats to discover! My absolute favourite is Devil's Cub. Also Sylvester, Recency Buck and The Corinthian all top my list of favourites. I might read her this weekend!
My comfort reads are by PG Wodehouse, Diana Wynne Jones, Peg Bracken and (tadaaa!) Eva Ibbotson. I love Ibbot’s kindness and sweetness. This year I read the House in the Cerulean Sea, and told every, It’s like Eva Ibbotson for grownups!( because my fav Ibbotsons are Not just a Witvh and Witch Witch.)
Thank you for this beautiful video I added the Georgette Heyer books to my tbr list 😍 as someone who grew up absorbing the Anne of Green Gables books I was so thrilled to find it among your comfort reads. They are certainly essential in my list of comfort reads along with The Night Circus, The Secret Garden, The Scorpio Races and quite a few others 😍
My favourite Georgettet Heyers are The Reluctant Widow - such a great beginning! And also These old Shades - ignore the strange title the story is great. My favourite Patricia Wentworth is Latter End - its a Miss Silver mystery with a most satisfying end:)
Thank you Lucy, and warm congratulations on finishing another book. Always pleased to hear what's on your mind, and at the moment ... well, it's good to properly informed but it's also desirable to be thoroughly distracted. An impressive set of co-morbidities means I'm going nowhere for a long time. Comfort reading? Conan Doyle and John Buchan; PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. Stay safe and well everybody, and stay at home.
I'm very tempted to start some PG Wodehouse -- I think this will present a good opportunity to. I'm glad you reminded me! Thinking of you - and sending you well wishes!
@@lucythereader Aw thank you: reciprocated of course. I hope you'll let us know how you get on with Wodehouse ... I daren't read him in public because of the helpless giggling, so the lockdown isn't entirely a bad thing. :-)
I just noticed that my biggest comfort reads are pretty different from each other: Sherlock Holmes, Good Omens, The Enchanted April & The Hobbit. I guess it depends on whether I need something to cheer me up when I feel down or something to soothe my anxiety. But apart from The Enchanted April, I've known all of them for a long time and they feel like being with friends.
Very different, but equally fantastic! I'm reading The Enchanted April at the moment and can see why you find it comforting. In fact, it's going to make an appearance in one of my videos next week, so I'm looking forward to talking more about it!
The morning gift is one of my comfort books as well. A weird one that makes me feel better is Agnes and the hitman. The intro about the many ways to use a non-stick frying pan cracks me up every time.
I think fantasy is my comfort genre. The world building is just the perfect escape for me without being too heavy in the way that historical fiction or thrillers can be. I’m also re-reading Pride and Prejudice in the community’s buddy read and it’s one of my favorites. I can’t wait to finish and rewatch the movie which is definitely a comfort movie.
Lovely to see you Lucy. Books are a Godsend at times like this. Funnily enough I get comfort from my Tudor novels, currently reading the Wolf Hall Trilogy.
I love the humour in Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances. I tend to reread all of them (in alphabetical order) every year. And currently enjoying listening to Richard Armitage reading Venetia on Audible. Love Anne of Green Gables and it and Anne of the Island are probably my favourites in the series.
I’m reading North and South for the first time and loving it. Can’t wait for your video. I read murder mysteries in times of stress because everything comes right in the end. In addition to Agatha Christie the Miss Silver books by Patricia Wentworth make me feel safe. The other option is historical fiction. I lost my house in Hurricane Katrina but was so thankful that I wasn’t Mary Queen of Scots. Reading about her made me count my blessings. 👑⚜️📚❤️
Ooooh... I recently bought it and was thinking about reading soonish. I watched the series first and loved it, so then I bought the book. How are you enjoying it?
I love Agatha Christie, and I unfortunately wasn’t familiar with Patricia Wentworth, so I’m going to check the Miss Silver books out! Do you suggest I start in order, or do you have a Miss Silver recommendation that I should read first?
North and South is similar to Pride and Prejudice in the main characters but includes the lower classes as well. I can highly recommend the BBC adaptation as well. I watched it on RU-vid last year.
Thank you for the video ❤️ My favorite comfort reads are anything by Jane Austen, anything by Agatha Christie, All Creatures Great and Small, The Secret Garden, Harry Potter and, lately, Neil Gaiman ☺️
I like reading the fault in our stars. I know it migh be a sad book, but I've already read it so many times that I feel connected and comfortable with the story.
I love Georgette Heyer and only started reading her a year ago. I’ve read quite a few now. I have a lot of comfort reads: D. E. Stevenson, Molly Clavering, and Miss Read Thrush Green books (MR books are great for bedtime reading).
i def agree that anne of green gables is a cozy read! i just read the first four in the series as part of a 24 hr readathon challenge lol and it was a nice cozy distracttion! rly wanna get to eva ibbotson asap!
Lucy, I hope you stay healthy throughout this unusual time. Each year, I have different goals for writing. Last year, a few of my short stories and poems were published on Teen Ink. This year, I won a Gold Key award for my short story, Ambition and Rejection. It was a regional award. I endeavor to win a national award next year. The last book I read was The Paper and Hearts Society. I think it is a brilliant work from a debut author. I love how well crafted the characters are. Tabby and Olivia are my favorite characters. I am excited to read Read With Pride when it is published in May. These recommendations were very helpful. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery is one of my favorite books of all time. I truly believe that it is a timeless classic. Anne of Green Gables will always be my favorite book in the Anne series. It is an absolute comfort read. I was completely enraptured by this coming of age story of an orphan girl, Anne Shirley and her vivacious experiences on Prince Edward Island. Anne of Green Gables was originally meant to be a stand alone novel. Lucy Maud Montgomery’s publishers actually commissioned her to write the sequels. My favorite of the sequels is probably Anne of the Island. I did not enjoy Anne of Avonlea or Anne of Windy Poplars as much. I am dying to read Anne’s House of Dreams. I reinvigorate my feelings of happiness and contentment through these comfort reads. I want to read some more of Beatrix Potter’s novels. I am thrilled at the thought of reading The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson. I want to devour some young adult historical fiction. As for Georgette Heyer’s writing, I think Arabella is the best place to start. I read A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Neilson two years ago and I enjoyed it immensely. I recently read Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and really enjoyed reading an account of the life of a governess. I am sure I will really enjoy Emily Bronte’s poetry. I love you
My comfort reads are: The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Fannie Flagg books, Mary Jo Putney novels set in Regency era (Never less than a lady is my favourite). I laugh out loud reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons and short stories by Stephen Leacock. I also enjoy crime stories from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie for the reassuring endings and for the depiction of the respective eras in them.
I have a stack of books to read during the Covid-19 quarantine. I’ll come back and edit them each time I finish a book. Remember to stay safe everyone and wash your hands 💖 My quarantine book line-up: - The Places I’ve Cried In Public ✅ - The Next Together ✅ - The Toll - Dear Evan Hansen - The Fault In Our Stars - Rosie Loves Jack - The Earth, My Butt, And Other Big Round Things - Anna and the French Kiss - The End And Other Beginnings - The Haven
Ooh Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson is one of my all time favorite books. I love books set in the Amazon and about exploring. I've been thinking about re-reading it. Harry Potter is my main comfort read and I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. That's my all time favorite book. Movie is great too.
I just reread North & South and I still love it. Perfect comfort book. Could you make a video about your favorite couples from classic books? I'm in need of perfect romance. I could read over and over again North & South, Emma and Persuasion.
Thank you for sharing these books, I've been wanting to read some happier books and didn't really know where to start (especially since I read a lot of miserable literature!). I can't wait to read the second installment of The Paper and Hearts Society :)
A book I read last year that makes me so so happy whenever I think about it is A Sky Painted Gold. It's just so lovely I'm gonna cry (also Anne of Green Gables and Heidi!)
I knew I was going to like your book recommendations! My comfort reads are children's literature. I love The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles and The Phantom Tollbooth. I also have a book about dragons that I love to flip through because it was so inspiring to me when I was little. Ann of the Green Gables is on my list of 30 books before I'm 30 - I still can't believe I haven't read it. I think it's a book I"m really going to love.
At the moment I'm not reading much comforting reads but I have thought about comfort reads. I feel like Kate Morton's books would be comfort reads I think The Night Circus is a comfort read. I also think both Charles Dickens' and Edith Wharton would authors that are comfort reads.
I'm currently reading Anne Frank; the Diary of a Young Girl for the umpteenth time now... I must have read the same copy I have had since the age of 13 at least 10 times, now? :D
Before the war there were depressions, high unemployment, a national government that couldn't do anything and the German rearming of the Rhineland which France could have stopped. Scary times then.
Best wishes and all of my love ti you too. Keep always safe. Now lets start talking about books. Except for the one I'm reading because I'm working on its translation, "East Lynne", I'm reading "The Doll Factory" by Elizabeth Mcneal and "The woman in White" by Wilkie Collins. Another L. M. Montgomery's book I think you ought to read is "The Story girl" and because it is a period in which we all have to remain at home what about reading a book which have been born by a period of obliged rest of the author? This book is "A Garland for girls" by another L. M. of the literary world: Louisa May Alcott. For now that's it! Stay safe! See you soon! xxx
I have just downloaded The Story Girl and A Garland for Girls on your recommendation - so thank you! I'm hoping to branch out slightly from the Anne books and read more LM Montgomery, so this may prove the perfect place. Are you enjoying The Doll Factory? I love it so much -- in fact, I was re-reading sections late the other night as I wanted to relive it all over again.
lucythereader I loved The Story Girl when I read it last summer. It is a beautiful story about a group of cousins telling each other stories to pass their time. This novel completely warmed my heart because it is such a simple tale of childhood memories. I love how the characters develop a relationship with each other. This book was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s favorite book to write because she drew upon memories of her teenage years and the stories told in her family. I feel like The Story Girl is very underrated. When talking about Lucy Maud Montgomery’s writing, everyone just seems to talk about Anne of Green Gables and the sequels. While I love the Anne books, The Story Girl is just another one of my obsessions. It is a comfort read and the writing is descriptive. I plan on rereading it very soon.
