Nine Books to You Might Read During a Storm (or a Pandemic or Any Sort of Awful Times)

I wasn't myself when the pandemic started. I had a hard time settling down into a book. 

During the early months of the pandemic, these are some of the books I read.

Some calmed me down, while others suggested that we can make it through bad times. I seemed to like to read about awful disasters from the past, reminding me that things have been terrible in the past, but we got through them.

Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter

Ways to Make Sunshine, children's fiction by Renée Watson

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Right Ho, Jeeves, classic humorous fiction by P. G. Wodehouse

Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic by Jeremy Brown

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, a memoir by Maggie O'Farrell

The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster, the Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900 by Al Roker

Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman

What calms you down when you face a storm?

By the way, I'm reading Doris Keans Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals now, about President Abraham Lincoln and the team he created from his rivals for office in order to help put America back together when it came apart in the Civil War. And I'm planning to read The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland as my first book of the year. 

Thank you to Astilbe for this prompt!

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