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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:03 pm
Do you have a book that makes you happy when you're you feeling down? Or maybe you have a collection that you go through? Well, let's hear them!
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I normally read any book... yet recently I've found the Twilight series seems to bring joy and lift my spirits. When I went through a rough break up, I reread the first book and almost immediately I felt better.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:30 am
Hm, good topic.
A few years ago, The Phantom of the Opera was my all-purpose comfort book. If I just needed to read, but didn't want to focus on something new, I'd take it off the shelf, open it to a random page, and read until I felt better.
Right now, because I have so many unfinished books, I don't really have a comfort book. Though, if I really just want to re-read something good to soothe my spirits, I've found that the Mystique comic book series and Ecclesiastes from the Bible do the trick.
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:54 am
To be honest, I never quite know what people are talking about when they say comfort food. I only know of comfort books. =] I used to always pick up The Lord of the Rings and open it at a random page. Tolkien's writing always cheers me up. I also love to reread Wuthering Heights and Othello. For all the misery in there, they make me feel wonderful because they're so wonderfully written.
And ever since I got my own copy of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, I've developed the habit of reading through its Introduction whenever I feel bad or low in confidence. Here's a lovely quote by Bill on the amazingly fortunate ancestry of each an every one of us. "Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years (...) every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so."
In fact, there's more: "Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result (...) in you." Now, if that can't make one feel loved, I don't know what can.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:48 pm
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is my comfort book. Also, I am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert. If I'm upset, all I have to do is flip it open, read a random sentence, and I'm laughing again.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:21 pm
If I'm not in the greatest of moods, I'll go right for The Outsiders. I've kept that book right to my heart since I was 11 years old (That was...2001, I believe. Born in 1989 here. so old T^T...). I refuse to put it shelve the book EVER, and it seems as if one of the characters can always fix whatever is going wrong with my life.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:23 am
I fall back on how I got it all started. Jeramy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Covall. Although, if I'm really feeling down I'll really get back to my book loving roots and go for Calvin and Hobbs ( cause nothing screams happy like a kid and his stuffed tiger )
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:51 am
For me it helps to read anything when feeling down. But The belgariad is a favorite because it's so light.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:24 am
I've actually noticed that with myself.
Such as, I had a horrible week and I just grabbed the book on my bedside table and started reading. Almost instantly I felt better.
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:10 pm
A Corner of the Universe, it's old but it does the trick.
I was one of the books that made me into the bibliophile I am today.
:3
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:19 pm
In the past some of my comfort books were The Virgin Suicides, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life At Rose Red, and the Kissed By An Angel trilogy. Nowadays I don't really reread books much since I have so many unread ones sitting on the shelves.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:53 pm
I have a few good laugh out loud books for I use for comfort. Good Omens is one of them, no doubt about that. But when I'm down, I usually read the Saiyuki manga, it's great for a pick me up!
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:34 pm
Not so much books that make me feel happy when down, but ones I read when I'm ill really.
I usually pick one from each of these series' at random: Harry Potter, The Black Magician trilogy, The Old Kingdom Series, the Keys to the Kingdom, Discworld, Artemis Fowl.
Books that are easy to read, can be read quickly, and that are entertaining, most importantly!
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:01 pm
Aw, I like this topic.
I tend to go back to favorites from my childhood.
The Wind in The Willows is one, The Once and Future King another. Terry Pratchett also always cheers me up.
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:56 pm
I tend to read the books that had a major impact on me emotionally. Interview with the Vampire is a favourite comfort book of mine.
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:37 am
My comfort books are my favorite books such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. They always seem to lighten me up in whatever circumstance.
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