Find Your Way Back to Reading with Comfort Reads

In this episode, we talk about what kinds of reads are bringing us comfort during these challenging times. Sara shares her love of cookbooks like Michelle Smith’s The Whole Smiths Good Food Cookbook, Ashley shares her love of poetry including the grief anthology Kevin Young’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, and Jen shares some great fantasy reads that she's loving including Sarah J. Maas’s House of Earth and Blood. We'd love to know what you're reading that is bringing you comfort! Let us know here or on social media @unabridgedpod!

Bookish Check-in

Ashley - Louise Penny’s Still Life

Jen - Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Sara - Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire

Comfort Read Recommendations

Sara -

Cookbooks

Annie F. Downs’s 100 Days to Brave: Devotions for Unlocking Your Most Courageous Self

(See this episode 198 from What Should I Read Next?)

Jen -

Sarah J. Maas’s House of Earth and Blood

Elana K. Arnold’s Damsel

Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Ashley -

Wendell Berry’s Window Poems

Mary Oliver’s West Wind

Nikky Finney’s Rice and Head Off and Split

Kevin Young’s The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, including Phillis Levin’s “Vigil”

Don't miss our episode where we talked about ways to beat a reading slump in Episode 54!

Other Mentions

Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Katherine Center’s How to Walk Away

Anne Bogel’s Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life

Michelle Smith’s The Whole Smiths Good Food Cookbook: Whole30 Endorsed, Delicious Real Food Recipes to Cook All Year Long

Give Me One - What's Getting Us By Right Now

Jen -

Jarrett Lerner’s activities online

online streaming of new movies (Onward)

Sara-

Joe Wick - daily PE activities for kids (and adults!)

Lindsay Brin - Kids' workouts

Yaymaker - Virtual paint class

Ashley -

Wow in the World podcast (now releasing daily with “Two Whats and a Wow!” as well as weekly!)

Highlights Magazine Hidden Pictures - set of 4

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Find Your Way Back to Reading with Comfort Reads

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