Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 23:01     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:Jude the Obscure.


Okay, I get it - very hilarious.

OP, don’t read Jude the Obscure.

(Read it someday, it’s brilliant. But it is NOT uplifting!)
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 22:59     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck


You cannot be serious recommending this as an uplifting book?
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 22:55     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 22:50     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
+1 for Remarkably Bright Creatures

Elissa Sussman's most recent books:
Funny You Should Ask
Once More with Feeling

The Second Ending, by Michelle Hoffman

Very Sincerely Yours, by Kerry Winfrey
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 21:22     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Laurie Colwin.

Agree with Sophie Kinsella. I just finished a not so perfect life and it was quite charming.

What about I capture the castle?

Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 17:55     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:I like travel books --some I have enjoyed are by Bill Bryson. Also Round Ireland with a fridge, pass the butter worms, a fortune teller told me, becoming odyssa.


Bill Bryson is a great suggestion! He has plenty of books I wouldn't classify as travel if that's not what you're going for. They're really funny and light.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 17:52     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've been stressed and want to distract myself with a book. It doesn't have to be completely devoid of negative emotion, but I would like to read something that's generally, happy, about decent people, where the ending is uplifting, even if the characters face some challenges. Comedies are fine, as is nonfiction. No violence/gore/trauma. Any suggestions?


THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.

Amazing book. Run, don’t walk.


This is my least fav book ever. Very annoying. If you are a fan of story lines where teen girls fake sexual abuse just to get men in trouble, be my guest.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 17:28     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes. It's fluffy and fun chick-lit.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 17:24     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Don't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino. She is a local author.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 16:13     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Jude the Obscure.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 15:42     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck


Um, what? How could anyone find that book even the slightest bit uplifting? There’s not one, but several murders in there.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 11:12     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've been stressed and want to distract myself with a book. It doesn't have to be completely devoid of negative emotion, but I would like to read something that's generally, happy, about decent people, where the ending is uplifting, even if the characters face some challenges. Comedies are fine, as is nonfiction. No violence/gore/trauma. Any suggestions?


THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.

Amazing book. Run, don’t walk.


This has serious trauma in it.


I’m not sure about the specifics of what OP is looking for but a lot of uplifting books bring you down first. I’d recommend The Sun Does Shine which is one of the most joyous books I’ve read, but it’s not all happy.


Totally agree and I loved RACING IN THE RAIN. But she said no trauma. Hence the warning.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 11:11     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center was fun and easy. Romance.

I find the Thursday Night Murder Club books to be fun.

I oddly find Daniel Silva books soothing.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 10:59     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've been stressed and want to distract myself with a book. It doesn't have to be completely devoid of negative emotion, but I would like to read something that's generally, happy, about decent people, where the ending is uplifting, even if the characters face some challenges. Comedies are fine, as is nonfiction. No violence/gore/trauma. Any suggestions?


THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN.

Amazing book. Run, don’t walk.


This has serious trauma in it.


I’m not sure about the specifics of what OP is looking for but a lot of uplifting books bring you down first. I’d recommend The Sun Does Shine which is one of the most joyous books I’ve read, but it’s not all happy.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2024 10:53     Subject: Looking for a joyful, uplifting read
Fannie Flagg books are good for this