"Comfort book"?

[duckduck]

2curlydogs said something in another thread about one of her "comfort books" and I totally have one-- well, several, but the first one that springs to mind is Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery. It's the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series and for some reason that is the one I turn to when I need comforting.

What is yours?

[2curlydogs]

It's like comfort food for the mind. I just want to curl up and rest with much-beloved characters.

I fluctuate between the Deryni books by Katherine Kurtz, Harry Potter and the Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey. Depends on my mood.

[charlatti]

Haven Kimmel's The Solace of Leaving Early. It's just so lovely, and I think it has the most perfect ending possible. The Harry Potter books are good for warm fuzzies too.

[secretlyevil]

Hmmm....I don't think I have a "comfort" book. It sounds lovely. I might have a couple of comfort authors though. They are my go to when I just really don't want to have to think. I need to completely escape for a couple of hours and I don't have to really concentrate. They are mostly romance authors. Those books that I can read in a couple of hours and I always feel better afterwards.

[bluelikejazz]

I have a few. I usually break them out when I need to snap out of a reading slump.

Harry Potter
Blue Like Jazz
Catcher in the Rye

[sparrowsong]

Several.

The Clan of the Cave Bear books, particularly Valley of the Horses and Mammoth Hunters.
Mists of Avalon
Anne of Green Gables series

All are books I can pretty just just open to random page and feel "at home." I know what's going on, I know who everyone is, and it's just a familiar, comforting world.

[writingwithheld]

At the sake of being totally unoriginal I am going to have to go with Harry Potter as well. I think comfort books are things you can just read to get lost in without having to really think or pay too close of attention to plot. It takes all of the effort out of reading and just leaves the pure enjoyment.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I Capture the Castle[/b] by Dodie Smith is my go-to. A close runner-up is The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice.

[abitofashout]

Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which I'm actually re-reading right now.

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[dorothyinAus]

The View from Saturday
Anne of Green Gables series, especially Anne of the Island
Emily of New Moon series
Mama's Bank Account
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
Little House books

[Deleted]

Everlasting by Nancy Thayer

***and don't laugh***

Don't Die My Love or the Amish trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel I just remember reading them and there just so quick to pick up.

[pooh8402]

Sookie Stackhouse series (I've read the first 9 books about 3 times each already) and, you're welcome to laugh, the Twilight series (which I've read through at least 4 times). Harry Potter also ranks up there, and Nicholas Sparks books when I need a good cry.

[BlackCanary]

These are my comfort books-

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Harry Potter

[Deleted]

Any of the Anne of Green Gables books is always comforting to me..... :-)

[BravoBravo]

The Twilight and HP series. I have read each multiple times.

[flatlan]

The Westing Game and Thornbirds.

[snippylynn]

I will have to go for Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, or, more recently, The Sugar Queen or The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen.

Persuasion and P&P because I've read them a hundred million times and I know that they give me the feel goods.

Sugar Queen and Peach Keeper because they're just warm stories about love and life and friendship with just a bit of magic thrown in. Not enough that they are fantasy, but a believable kind of magic. Like books showing up whenever you need one.

[BravoBravo]

Jan 28, 2013 3:30:41 GMT -5 snippylynn said:

I will have to go for Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, or, more recently, The Sugar Queen or The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen.

Persuasion and P&P because I've read them a hundred million times and I know that they give me the feel goods.

Sugar Queen and Peach Keeper because they're just warm stories about love and life and friendship with just a bit of magic thrown in. Not enough that they are fantasy, but a believable kind of magic. Like books showing up whenever you need one.

I am going to check out the Sarah Addison Allen books.

[sporklemotion]

Jan 28, 2013 3:30:41 GMT -5 snippylynn said:

Persuasion and P&P because I've read them a hundred million times and I know that they give me the feel goods. .

Ditto on P&P, for this reason.  Dickens does this for me too.  As a kid, it was definitely Anne of Green Gables or Little House on the Prairie-- somehow the plagues of locusts and devastating blizzards made me feel warm and fuzzy, I guess.

flatlan, I love the Westing Game!

[snippylynn]

Jan 28, 2013 9:02:14 GMT -5 BravoBravo said:

Jan 28, 2013 3:30:41 GMT -5 snippylynn said:

I will have to go for Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, or, more recently, The Sugar Queen or The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen.

Persuasion and P&P because I've read them a hundred million times and I know that they give me the feel goods.

Sugar Queen and Peach Keeper because they're just warm stories about love and life and friendship with just a bit of magic thrown in. Not enough that they are fantasy, but a believable kind of magic. Like books showing up whenever you need one.

I am going to check out the Sarah Addison Allen books.

You should! I would try either of the two I mentioned.  I hear they are her best. 

[duckduck]

Jan 28, 2013 10:20:00 GMT -5 snippylynn said:

Jan 28, 2013 9:02:14 GMT -5 BravoBravo said:

I am going to check out the Sarah Addison Allen books.

You should! I would try either of the two I mentioned.  I hear they are her best. 

My IRL book club read The Sugar Queen and we loved it.

[snippylynn]

Duckduck, it's become my 'Christmas time' book. Totally adorable.

[BravoBravo]

Jan 28, 2013 10:20:00 GMT -5 snippylynn said:

Jan 28, 2013 9:02:14 GMT -5 BravoBravo said:

I am going to check out the Sarah Addison Allen books.

You should! I would try either of the two I mentioned.  I hear they are her best. 

I was able to download The Peach Queen and I have a hold on The Sugar Queen.

[snippylynn]

Excellent! I hope you like them!

[aprilsails]

My comfort book is The Blue Castle by LM Mongomery. It's a short stand alone romance novel and a quick read if I'm ever feeling a little blue myself.