Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
This week’s prompt:
I think we could all use some comfort reads these days. So tell me:
What are your comfort reads? Is it s genre? An author? A certain book you go back to again and again?
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I have several, but I’m going to mention the “weirdest” one. When I need a comfort read, I’ll read the first four novellas in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells.
Not your traditional comfort read, I’ll grant you. If I “accidentally” open All Systems Red (the first in the series), I will absolutely sit down and read it. In fact, I’m thinking I might have to read it tonight.
For the record, I enjoyed the Apple series based on the first book, although I still like the books so much better.
Interesting! Now I’m reconsidering everything I thought I knew about you!
Plus! I’m looking into that entire series!
A more predicable comfort read for me is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. (Don’t get me started on how much I disliked the movie version.) Also, 84, Charing Cross Road is another comfort read.
I always go to Sy Montgomery when I need comfort. In fact, I always consciously don’t read one of her books so I have something for troubling times. Having said that, I could read The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, any day. Lovely book!
As it turned out, I couldn’t find my copy of TGGP when I needed it in late January. Then I remembered that I’d lent / given it to a friend who was going through some stuff last summer. (I’ll get another one!) In late January, I ended up reading Birdology again which is not suffering.
What great choices! I’m going to have to try one of Sy’s books when I’m in need of a comfort read.
My number one comfort read is A Wrinkle in Time. Not sure why I return to that one, but I do. I’ve never read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but I watched the movie and liked it. Now, I want to read the book, so I can see what I’m missing!
My dislike has to do with Juliet’s character and some changes the screenwriters made to it. I understand why they did, but I feel like they changed an essential part of who she was. They made her more into a rom-com heroine, and I’m still a little bit salty about that.