Happy New Year and welcome back to Book Break!
After all of your New Years parties, we have got the perfect video for you today. These
are the books to read when you're hungover.
So I've got all of my hangover essentials here. I've got my Barocca for recovery, my
massive cheesy pizza, and a bunch of books that are just ideal to read on a hangover.
So we've gone for nothing too gory, nothing with too much drinking in it, nothing that's
going to make you feel squeamish, a really great mix of cosy comfort reads or gripping
thrillers that will help you wake up when your head is just struggling a little bit.
So, grab your hangover snacks of choice and let's get into the books.
So one of, I imagine one of the most popular books to read on a hangover, are the Harry
Potter series. These books are so cosy, so comforting, plus you've read them all a hundred
times before so you don't have to concentrate too hard which is very important when you're
feeling a bit delicate.
I always like to start at the beginning because this one is just so cosy, nothing gets too
dark or scary yet.
I also really like with hangover books for them to be books you can read all in one day,
and this book is actually called One Day by David Nicholls.
It's not super short but I have actually read this one all in one day just because it's
so gripping.
So this is about two people, a girl and a boy, who meet at uni, and we basically check
back in with them on the same day every year, and see where their lives are at and what
their relationship is like to each other at that point and how their lives are intersecting.
And it's really really moving, really sad, really sweet and heartwarming, I loved this
one.
And there is a movie version, so if your hangover is just too strong, you could just watch the
movie instead.
I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for saying that.
But sometimes having something too cosy isn't great for a hangover because you'll just fall
asleep, so if instead you want more of a gripping pageturner, The Man Who Didn't Call by Rosie
Walsh is a great one. So this is a really fun combination of genres, it's part love
story and part mystery.
Serious page turner, will make it worth the effort of switching your brain on.
So it starts as this love story, woman meets a man, whirlwind romance, they fall in love
super quickly, and then he goes away on a holiday, promising that when he gets back,
he will call and they will start the rest of their lives together. But then he just
never calls.
And all of her friends just say she's been ghosted, but she knows there is more of a
mystery, there has to be more of a mystery to it than that.
And it's got such a great twist that just blew my mind. This will definitely keep you
awake through a hangover day.
Or if lifting a book really is too much effort, you could just prop up a kindle and lie very
still. So a good book to read on your kindle would be The Other Woman by Sandie Jones.
So this is about a woman meeting her boyfriend's mother for the first time, but this mother
just seems determined to turn the son against this girlfriend.
It's another one with a really fun twist, nobody's quite who they seem.
Now one of the worst things about the New Year's hangover, is that when you wake up,
it's January, which is just the most miserable month.
So, that's why I've picked A Midwinter Promise by Lulu Taylor. Lulu Taylor's books are just
so fantastically wintery that they actually make it being January seem like a good thing.
So A Midwinter Promise is a fab, family drama, with enough darkness to suit your terrible
hungover mood, but also enough secrets and intrigue to perk you up.
Now A Simple Favour by Darcey Bell. This book is really good fun, as is the movie, so definitely
check that out too, and we actually did a video where we compared the book and the movie,
so I will link that below if you want to go check it out.
So this is a thriller, but it's also really tongue in cheek and really funny.
And, the main character has a secret which I promise is worse than any of the gossip
you learned at your New Year's party last night.
And finally, Kate Morton's books are perfect for all occasions really and that includes
hangovers.
They are mysterious but never too scary or violent for your poor, hungover head.
And The House at Riverton was her first book, so it's a good throwback one. This is set
in England between the wars at a grand country house full of secrets, and it's told between
parallel timelines which is Kate Morton's trademark. So it's a really good cosy one
to soothe your hangover.
So now I am going to snuggle down with my giant pizza and this fab selection of books,
and then I should be feeling right as rain by this afternoon, maybe ready to do it all
over again.
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