Any suggestions for websites that are enjoyable to pop in on as opposed to constantly refreshing news sites and feeling bad?

My project is reading & reviewing advance reader copies on NetGalley. I love it. Sometimes I get a book by a small publishing outfit that I never would have read otherwise. Sometimes I get pre-releases of big name authors so I get to read a book ~6 months before it comes out, for free. It occupies me and keeps me away from too much scrolling. Anyone can sign up.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Anonymous wrote:You Are Here by David Nichols
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Zevin
Mrs. Quinn's Rise To Fame by Olivia Ford
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Seconding Killers of a Certain Age!

Anonymous wrote:Not a novel, but I just picked up Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer again. It's so gorgeously written, and it makes me feel like I'm developing new eyes for seeing. Really helps get me out of my own head and shift my attention.

Also poetry has helped: Naomi Shihab Nye and Mary Oliver feel really good right now.

Not OP, but thanks.

Not a novel, but I just picked up Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer again. It's so gorgeously written, and it makes me feel like I'm developing new eyes for seeing. Really helps get me out of my own head and shift my attention.

Also poetry has helped: Naomi Shihab Nye and Mary Oliver feel really good right now.

Fanfiction: Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

Light, fluffy, scientist/feminist heroine, and free

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34500952

I started Rebecca yesterday and am eyeing re-reading some Austen and Middlemarch. Apparently I just want to read novels by British women.

I recommend listening to Project Hail Mary. It was a great audiobook!

Anonymous wrote:Whose read Project Hail Mary? It sounds so similar to The Martian (man stuck alone in space). Is it worth a read if I've already read Martian?

It's much different. Highly recommend. Artemis by Andy Weir is also worth reading - heist story on a moon colony

I absolutely loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I found myself completely immersed - great escape into a fictional world. I also liked The Stored Life of A.J. Fikry, by the same author. Very different type of book - warmer, but also immersive.

Going in a totally different direction, I really liked The Passage, by Justin Cronin, and the two others in the trilogy. Not my usual genre, but again, it completely sucked me in. Excellent distraction.

Could be fun to try some memoirs (especially on audio). If you haven’t already, try Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime, and Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends (and the sequel - I forget the name), and Tiffany Haddish’s first memoir (something with Unicorn in the title?)

You Are Here by David Nichols
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Zevin
Mrs. Quinn's Rise To Fame by Olivia Ford
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

I rereaded beloved fantasy fiction from my youth.

Whose read Project Hail Mary? It sounds so similar to The Martian (man stuck alone in space). Is it worth a read if I've already read Martian?

Anonymous wrote:Did you read The Husbands yet? Fun and engaging.

+1.