Lately, oh the past 6 months or so, I've been doing comfort reading. Reading books I'm very familiar width so I don't have to think and I know very well, books that fit like comfy sweats or pjs. My job has been stressful and I guess comfort reading is better than comfort eating (although I'm doing that as well).
The types of book I consider comfort reading are mysteries. The three authors I've been re-reading over and over again lately are Rita Mae Brown, Georgette Heyer, and most recently Nancy Atherton.
What started me thinking about what and why I'm reading was the release of Bless Me Ultima. That reminded me I enjoyed the book as well as Isabelle Allende, Michael Ondatje and other similar fiction authors. They tend to make me think more as well as science fiction which make them good reading but not good comfort reading.
Oh, I just realized I hadn't defined "comfort reading". I figured it was self explanatory like comfort food. Anyway, comfort reading is reading used to relax and soothe me. No thinking. No analysis. Just transportation into another person's world.
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