Things I like. Now with Search button (and links have moved right to the bottom)
I wanted to load up my Kindle with comfort reads - the literary equivalent of hot chocolate - for a friend who's not well. I know what my faves are but I wanted more suggestions, so I asked on Twitter and got an avalanche of replies. These are the ones that cropped up most often, or that I liked the sound of most, with my own favourites chucked in. I've culled anything too crime-y, on the grounds of not cosy enough, and anything too grotesquely twee (though I think a good comfort read often has an element of twee - it's getting the level of tweeness right that's a challenge), or anything too self-consciously literary, on the grounds of there being a time and a place.
I haven't got time to link to each and every one but Google is your friend. So, in no order, apart from Nancy Mitford triumphant in the top spot: here you go - ultimate comfort reads.
The pic is of Marilyn Monroe - it's not the famous Eve Arnold one of her reading James Joyce, on the basis that this list is more James Joyce reading Marilyn, and none the worse for that.
I write books, and things for The Sunday Times. But I wanted a place to stick other stuff I like, and Posterous is unbelievably easy to set up. So here we are. Yet another work-avoidance strategy by me. You can follow me on Twitter, too - I'm @indiaknight. I know, right? The interwebs: where the fun never ends.
I write books, and things for The Sunday Times. But I wanted a place to stick other stuff I like, and Posterous is unbelievably easy to set up. So here we are. Yet another work-avoidance strategy by me. You can follow me on Twitter, too - I'm @indiaknight. I know, right? The interwebs: where the fun never ends.
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