Friday, March 27, 2020

Reprieve from Real Life


This is not the time for Station Eleven or The Road. Nor should you pick up The Stand or, heaven forbid, One Second After. However, if you must go there, go here.

For me, turning off the news and escaping into fiction has done wonders for my mental health – and probably irreversible damage to my back.

Before turning to this week’s list of recommendations of escape fiction, I’d like to give a shout out to Libby. Since my Kindle seems to be on the fritz, I’ve relied on her more and more to access free books from the library.

Some are light-hearted, a few are well-written, but in all of them you’ll notice the absence of social distancing and the novelty of well, going places. Best of all, they offer a short reprieve from real life.

Maybe in a Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell

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