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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Mrs Dean: It’s 11pm and I should stop telling this story. Mr Lockwood: Don’t worry, I can sleep in until 10! Mrs Dean: Okay, I’ll keep talking, but I’ll skip a few boring years. Mr Lockwood: Absolutely not! You’re required to stay awake forever! And don’t worry, I won’t make you miss your chores tomorrow. Up and at ‘em as early as usual!


critlet commented...
I personally go for cozy fantasy and solar punk when I’m in that headspace. Psalm for the Wild-Built is one of my favorites; it combines personal hope and societal hope, so it’s a double whammy when both my own life and the world at large feel tenuous.
The In-Between was sad but hopeful around death and dying, written by a hospice nurse.
I agree that poetry can be just the thing, but I have no recs there.
What My Bones Know was incredibly intense but offers hope (in the second half) about healing from CPTSD.
If you’re looking for particular types of hope — relationship, global, career, recovery, illness, family — let us know?
I'm in a pretty bad moment of my life right now, trying to figure everything out and not loose hope, so I was wondering what books made you feel like everything is gonna be alright? Books that gave you hope? Made you feel better or gave you strength to get up and deal with whatever you had to at that moment?
I just finished reading the Odyssey and I wanted to know what you all think of rating the Classics™️. For me it feels weird? I don’t feel “qualified” I guess??? And it feels wrong to say I didn’t necessarily enjoy it 100% but how do you guys feel?
Do you feel comfortable rating a classic? Do you feel like it’s disrespectful or is it not really that deep for you?


critlet commented...
I love when the MC thinks they’re keeping a really good secret, and then everyone else was just pretending they didn’t already know.
We all know the the big tropes like enemies to lovers in romances or farm boy to hero in epic fantasies. I was always a sucker for micro tropes, because most of the time you don't know they're gonna be in the book before reading it, making it a surprise every time. I'd be curious what some of your favorite ones are, even if they're extremely niche! I don't care which genre it is.
I guess mine would be mind reading in romances where the love interest is stoic on the outside but secretly has unhinged thoughts, gets me every single time 😂