I recently read an interesting article in The New Yorker which asked whether reading books can make us happier.
It also gives a fascinating insight into bibliotherapy and bibliotherapists (this profession wasn’t an option on the Career’s Service computer questionnaire we did at high school in the 90s. I feel cheated!).
Bibliotherapists prescribe reading to improve their patients’ mental health.
I’ve been thinking about this and I wanted to do a quick post to ask you: what books make you happy? Is there a book or an author you go to for cheering up? Even if it’s just to read a chapter or a few pages?
One of my choices would be any of the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.J. Wodehouse.
My rather colourful collection of Jeeves and Wooster books!
Brilliantly clever and very silly at the same time, Bertie Wooster’s daft antics and the genius solutions from his butler, Jeeves, always make me smile. Wodehouse’s writing is so wonderful: light and glittering but the same time so witty and intelligent.
I love Sophie Kinsella books, they always make me chuckle. I agree if you can escape into a fictionary world, you can forget about your own for a while.
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I really enjoyed Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella – consistently funny and laugh out loud hilarious in places! 🙂
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I’ve just finished ‘Gone Girl’ and I found it an incredible read. Just brilliant! 🙂
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I only read that recently too and also enjoyed it! I thought the author did a brilliant job writing as both Amy and Nick – not easy! 🙂
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Exactly! You forget that they’re fictional. Such a talented author! 🙂
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Give me a P G Wodehouse book any day, with a cup of tea and some cookies!
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Exactly! Jeeves would approve! 🙂
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