Keeping distracted and filling time with gentle and enjoyable activities seems to have a place for many people while waiting for results or undergoing treatment.
Reading a good book can help to pass the time.
I wondered if a thread for recommendations of uplifting, easy to follow book titles might be useful. Personally I don’t want tragedy or cancer stories at the moment, and when feeling so tired from chemo or recovering from surgery it needs to be easy to pick up and put down.
Suggestions gratefully received. I hope this is useful to others too and can build into a resource for us all.
Hi - my love for reading has resumed - here’s I few easy readers I would recommend:
Maybe This Time - by Jill Mansell
Some Kind of Wonderful - by Giovanna Fletcher
Paris for One & other Stories - by Jojo Moyes
Between Us - by Mhari McFarlane
Sophie Kinsella and Catherine Alliott are other authors whom are easy to read
How about the Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith, and in fact anything written by him.
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