Something awful happened to me..

[Hurtingneedssoothing]

2 nights ago something pretty bad happened, I don't want to explain or go into it.

Apart from the feelings associated and feel thoroughly depressed, I just don't know what to do.

Im trying to find a film or a book, preferably a book just to take my mind of things. I cant go out anywhere but I need to do something as distraction.

Can you recommend any books I can read? I like a lot of true life stuff and I also like crime and action books. I'll also read young adult and some romance.

I have the kindle app.

Any help would be great! Thanks

Have you read the Cormoran Strike series of books by Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling)?

They start with The Cuckoo's Calling.

Linwood Barclay's Promise Falls Trilogy is good if small town American crime appeals.

Joy Ellis Jackman and Evans series is also good...you can also get it on Audible read by Richard Armitage which is great.

If you want something to watch...School of Chocolate on Netflix and Only Murders In The Building on Disney Channel are fab.

I hope you manage to take your mind off things and feel better soon.

Anything by Douglas Kennedy. Good, page turning thrillers, with interesting political back drops.

I wouldn't read them if the bad thing that happened involved a physical attack by a man.

Lonesome Dove. It's so easy to become completely immersed in another world.

How about an audiobook? For pure escapism, nothing beats being read to. Stephen Fry reading Sherlock Holmes is my personal favourite. If you have a bath, buy some bubble lotion, lay a flannel over your eyes and let Stephen Fry transport you to Edwardian London - pure bliss.

Douglas Kennedy seconded although does often feature violence
Emily Giffin for frothy but very readable storylines

Liane Moriarty. I love her books.

I really like a binge-watch of Home & Away to escape and cheer me up!

Channel 5 catch-up on a laptop has the last month of episodes (with no ads! they just play through all the episode seamlessly)

When I've gone through feeling like this I tend to put on a podcast or the radio and clean. I really really need the background noise because the silence (of reading a book) will be too unbearable for me.

I can’t recommend The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Armin enough. Wonderful, escapist, funny, moving. Absolutely brilliant.

I have no recommendations really but wanted to say I hope you soon feel better💐

Blindfold game by Dana Stabenow? Thriller set partly on a US coastguard vessel. I like all of her work, but found this one particularly compelling .

I'm a fan of Patricia Cornwell, also Phil Rickman Merrily Watkins series .
Hope you're ok op 💐

Sorry to hear that OP, I hope you are ok.

I know it isn't to everyone's taste and book snobbety is very real but forthe times I really need escapism and have no interest in being philosophically or intellectually challenged I usually go for YA reading. Do you read the fantasy genre? I find that especially entertaining.

Can I second ‘The Enchanted April’? Also, the film version is just lovely if you can find it - was on YouTube a while ago.

When I was feeling low I read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. It helped me. I hope you will be ok xx

When I was going through awful health problems I read Gil McNeil books, knit one pearl one, divas don’t knit, the only boy for me, (might not have titles quite right), had me laughing out loud and had to lend them to the nurses when I’d finished them.

hope you feel better in yourself soon.

Lissa Evans.
She writes for children and adults. Old Baggage and the two sequels are very easy to read and there is something reassuring about the strong female protagonist.

The Cormoran Strike books are fantastic but just a warning there is a main character dealing with issues from an assault in her past in it.
I love Louise Pennys Inspector Gamache series, they start off pretty gentle but do become quite tense in later books where upper levels corruption is investigated.
Karen mcManus YA books are quite good ('one of us is lying' is on Netflix I think).
If you are into fantasy at all Ben Aaronovitchs Rivers of London series is very different, bit wild but v good

Might not be your cup of tea nor is it crime or action but 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce captivated me and I'm not a fiction fan normally. It's the sort of book that you can feel, sense and easily visualise the story and characters due to the brilliant author. I was going through a bad time when I read this and it really helped me escape. I always look back on the book with fondness. I'm sorry you've had an awful experience 💐

Me too. I especially like listening on audible as I love Caroline Lee’s narration, she does all her books.

If you like a bit of romance, try a Georgette Heyer novel - very gentle.

i hope you feel better soon.

These books are old now, but anything by Arthur Hailey can't be beaten for drama, especially Hotel and The Money Changers.
I hope you feel better very soon.

Anything by PG Wodehouse.

Sorry to hear about you having a hard experience.

i recently read ‘the sisters brothers’ and that was a good read.
I also started listening to ‘The Infinate monkey cage’ podcast.

both I’d recommend

Really sorry you are having a tough time. I agree that podcasts are ideal to distract you. I'd recommend the fake heiress as an easy, not heavy going starting point.