Hi - exactly as the title says - seeking some recs and healing from my fellow bookworms! My partner of 6 years, someone who very recently held my hand and said "I love you and I've got you" just broke up with me. I won't go into too many details because it will get long. But it came out of the blue. I thought we were family, he's literally been my best friend. Apparently not.

He's done this to me before and then walked back the statement. It hurt like shit, but I didn't tell anyone last time it happened. This time, I'm taking a different, "it takes a village" kind of approach. I want to get angry, I want to scream, and I want ALL the distractions I can get to heal my broken heart and move on for good. I didn't deserve the way it happened & how he's done this before and watched my world crumple around me along with my confidence. Then watch me build it up again to crush it, like clockwork, a year later.

Please throw any and all recs my way! Anything lift-you-out-of-the-funk, it will get better, build your confidence themes. Men-kinda-suck themes work too (he might be my last male partner, I'm BI). And smut, all the smut. I intend to heal up one page at a time.💔

Edit: Thank you so much boundlings. This thread has gotten me through a really rough few days. Your love, encouragement and recommendations is shining so much light my way. I'll slowly respond to everyone and add all recs to my own shelf. I've already hunted one of the recs down on Libby and have made a start, and it's warming my heart. If I get sulky I'll put my head in the recommended books & comments thread. If I haven't gotten back to you yet, know I've seen you and am so grateful. So much love from this internet stranger 🫶🫶🫶

Is anyone’s Libby holds just… not coming in? I swear none of mine have for weeks 😩 but i bet they’ll flood in after this post

It’s not even that I don’t have stuff to read, but I have books for book clubs and readalongs that I should be reading now and not later!

Anyone else having this problem? Are there Libby gods I need to be sacrificing to?

My secret is out. My parents came over to supervise me fixing the toilet supply line (aka I asked dad to come watch me fix it so I knew what the hell I was doing and also so he’d feed me lunch after) and mom saw my crafting and book room.

“You have quite a few books!” She says and gestured to my two-level deep, stacked, and genre-organized shelves.

“Yes,” I said, deliberately not telling her I have 400 more on my Kobo.

How may physical books do you guys own? Do you selectively curate or just dragon hoard?