I live on a narrow boat and travel all the time (albeit very slowly) and finding a bookshop in a town or village that we're passing through always gives me joy; if the bookshop also sells coffee and home made cake, even better! I love rereading books, sometimes more than once. I've just read one of my favourite all time books for the 4th time and loved it all over again. It was Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler....I love this book so much and recommend it to everyone who loves to read 📚 Karen
Your life sounds like a beautiful adventure and story all on its own! Living on a boat, finding books and coffee and pastries, it sounds like a dream. Thanks so much for the recommendation for Ladder of Years -- I'm going to check it out!
Hi Dana, my dream is to write a book about why we sold our house and pretty much everything else to have a narrow boat built. All Anne Tyler's books are amazing!
What a nice surprise, finding myself in your post today! Thank you ever so much, Dana. Yes, I too have read many grief memoirs, which for me are a genre all their own. The most recent was the one by Geraldine Brooks, which brought me to tears more than once. But I do find joy and even laughter on occasion. Having just discovered, thanks to a friend, a series of detective novels set on Sanibel Island, I am having a ball reading those before I go to sleep -- and when I wake in the middle of the night and need to distract my mind from dark thoughts.
I felt the same when I stumbled upon your post! Thank you!
I've heard great things about Geraldine Brooks' memoir and have added it to my to-be-read list. And the detective series sounds like the perfect distraction for dealing with dark times.
I live on a narrow boat and travel all the time (albeit very slowly) and finding a bookshop in a town or village that we're passing through always gives me joy; if the bookshop also sells coffee and home made cake, even better! I love rereading books, sometimes more than once. I've just read one of my favourite all time books for the 4th time and loved it all over again. It was Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler....I love this book so much and recommend it to everyone who loves to read 📚 Karen
Your life sounds like a beautiful adventure and story all on its own! Living on a boat, finding books and coffee and pastries, it sounds like a dream. Thanks so much for the recommendation for Ladder of Years -- I'm going to check it out!
Hi Dana, my dream is to write a book about why we sold our house and pretty much everything else to have a narrow boat built. All Anne Tyler's books are amazing!
What a nice surprise, finding myself in your post today! Thank you ever so much, Dana. Yes, I too have read many grief memoirs, which for me are a genre all their own. The most recent was the one by Geraldine Brooks, which brought me to tears more than once. But I do find joy and even laughter on occasion. Having just discovered, thanks to a friend, a series of detective novels set on Sanibel Island, I am having a ball reading those before I go to sleep -- and when I wake in the middle of the night and need to distract my mind from dark thoughts.
I felt the same when I stumbled upon your post! Thank you!
I've heard great things about Geraldine Brooks' memoir and have added it to my to-be-read list. And the detective series sounds like the perfect distraction for dealing with dark times.