Okay, so today i'm going to be doing a recommendation video for
feel good books. It's the beginning of the year, i'm wanting to start my year
on some books that are just cozy and warm and feel nice, so i thought i'd do a recommendation
for some of those in case someone else is feeling that way too. I did post on instagram asking what
a feel-good book means to you and i also did a typo in it, which people had a heyday with,
but i'm going to, i'm going to kind of wrap my recommendations around some of the answers that
came up the most. First category is going to be about some childhood favorites which i am starting
with this one because i feel very much the same. A feel-good book for me is something that i loved
a long time ago that i still love now um and i have kind of a mixture of some of my old feel good
favorites in this list as well as some of my new favorites, but they're still books for children.
So Just Ella is a retelling of Cinderella. It's a middle, it's a middle grade book and it's a
retelling of Cinderella and it's about this girl after the ball. After. Cinderella is technically
over as we know it and now she's been swept away, she lives in the castle and she's having
princess training and but now that she's here she realizes this is not all that it's cracked
up to be and also this prince that i thought i was in love with after one night of dancing...
he's not that cool. I want out. And i really really love this story. I mean, it is middle grade
so it's, i don't know. I don't know how i'd feel about it if i read it for the first time now, but
it makes me feel good every time i read it. Harry Potter is a series that has tons of nostalgia for
me. I don't need to tell you what it's about, but re-reading it is always just very cozy
and feel good for me. And some recent favorites that i think fit into this category even though
they don't have technical nostalgia for me, they feel nostalgic because they're so warm and cozy
and childlike. There's The Boy The Horse The Mole The Fox. I think that's the right order this time.
Maybe i should just look at it. Oh wow. I was totally wrong. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And
The Horse. I've talked about this a lot so i'll keep it really brief. It's intended where children
and adults can read it and it takes, it has this beautiful art style and it takes these really
complex and deep concepts and it boils it down into these simple pages, these simple ways of
saying it, but still pack such a big impact and really this this book is full of of things that
make me think and make me reflect and just make me feel so good. And then Winnie The Pooh which
i read for the first time as an adult and it's, especially the first two books that are full
stories; you have two books of stories and two books of poems, and the two books of stories are
so cozy and they feel so good and warm and happy and it also has a lot of stuff that kind of makes
me pause and reflect. And i just, It's nonsense, but in the most cozy way. Next we have optimistic
fantasy where violence is subdued. I, I have a few of these i think. Violence isn't something
that really bothers me and so i'm not positive that i've done the best job, but i think all
of these have subdued violence. We have The Wayward Children series which is a series of,
it's a series of very short books about children who enter into magical doorways uh Narnia-esque
and they each go into a world that's unique and perfect for them and we start book one is them all
in an orphanage because they've been they've left their world and now they're back in the real world
and this isn't where they belong, they went back to where they came from and then each other book
is exploring the world. So, i didn't really like book one but i have loved all the rest
of them. Uh i don't necessarily think that they're the most uh... i don't know. They're
not necessarily the best written books. Maybe that's too harsh. I really like this author,
she wrote some great books. It's not, it's not that i think that they're brilliantly constructed,
it's just that the worlds in each of these stories are so unique and so much fun to explore that i
love each time i enter a new one of these. The House In Cerulean Sea which i am still currently
reading, but this is such a cozy, warm book about children who have magical abilities
and so they're in this orphanage and it follows this man who is kind of like a caseworker,
he's meant to check in on them and make sure that everything is running smoothly. And this book is
described by one of the mods on my patreon server who has convinced us all to read this book as
it's just, reading this book feels like a warm hug. A Wizard of Earthsea which is a book that
didn't work for me, but it's a classic fantasy and as i remember it, it's not very gratuitous, but
it's just like a fun adventure which is definitely fits into this theme. And A Never-Ending Story.
Another classic fantasy that i'm pretty sure is pretty subdued in violence as i remember it
and again, it's it's a lot like A Wizard of Earthsea in that it's it's a really fun adventure.
This one's a little bit more nonsensical and all over the place, but in a fun way. Again,
it wasn't my favorite book but it fits into this theme really well. Lighthearted and sweet
relationship/family moments, humor and human connection. For this i chose the Little Women
series as well as the Jane, any Jane Austen book. I think both of these classic sets have, they both
have a lot of focus on family. I mean all of Jane Austen's books are Standalones, but each
of them has a big focus on family and obviously Little Women if you know anything about it is
very centered around a family and they're both of these sets of books are so cozy and warm and just
every time i enter Jane Austen book and when i and when i've read Little Women, i just feel like
i'm entering Fall. Does that make sense? Is that a weird description? I don't know how to describe
feel-good things. I feel like i've entered into something that just feels good, that just
feels right. It feels comfortable when i enter into these stories. They're the perfect amount of
fun and ridiculousness as well as just feel good. Also i recommend for this On The Fence,
which is a YA romance that i loved the first time i read it and i've reread it a few times.
And this is about a girl and her family and she has i think four brothers and she's being
raised by her dad and so she's like one of the guys, but then she gets this job where she meets
girlfriends and kind of has these two opposing sides of her where she's athletic and "one of
the guys" and then realizes that she actually kind of likes dressing up and enjoys hanging out with
girls as well. So there's a big focus on family as well as her kind of coming to a, coming of age and
rediscovering herself or discovering new sides of herself um as well as a really really really cute
romance. This one came up a lot. People saying that books that are really environmental felt very
warm and cozy to them which man i agree with that. Some really environmental books are The Starless
Sea which i feel like exploring the different elements of this world and being fully immersed in
them, in the environment is, and the writing style is really what makes this book what it is. Again,
it wasn't a book that was a perfect hit for me, but i loved sinking into the different places that
we explored in the Starless Sea and this writing style and i think that that's easily the strongest
part about this. I also have The Bear And The Nightingale on this list which again, isn't
exactly the story for me, but it uh it's very very environmental. It's a Winter setting book and
um i think that again, the writing style and the environment are what shine about this book and
what makes this book so strong. And then i can't remember the name. I'm gonna have to look up the
name in editing, but this is the only book that i could think of that has a cozy beach town feel
that is also kind of feel good. I mean, it starts out a little bit dark, but it's a feel... it i
think it's a feel-good book. Also, if you know of any really cozy beach town books please talk about
them in the comments. Please recommend them in the comments because um "cozy beach town" is one
of my favorite tropes and i really couldn't think of very many books that have that that i've read.
This one specifically is about this beach town that has a curse on it where like men
go and drown every so often, but nobody, everybody refuses to leave because like this is their home
and i think it's such an interesting setting and even with without that creepy setting the
the cozy, hometown, no one wants to leave despite what's going on in the town... this is one of my
favorite tropes. So if you know of those, please recommend because that's very "feel good" for me.
And something else that came up a lot is humor. Something that feels good to them, that feels cozy
to them is something that just makes them laugh which i definitely understand. Recommendations for
that; Murderbot. I have a review for the first two novellas, link up there. This is a sci-fi story
about a robot who is supposed to be escorting humans and keeping them alive and it's jokingly
started referring to itself as Murderbot and it's such a dry, witty humor that just cracks me up.
Also i'm currently reading Good Omens, well, i just started Good Omens and this book is absurd
and insane and hilarious. And because i know that this is something that Daniel really likes,
i asked him for some recommendations too. He said definitely recommend Discworld. He also recommends
Bobverse which is on my list. He's told me to read this many many times. And Hitchhiker's Guide
To The Galaxy. And we're gonna end this on "cozy, murder mysteries," which is not my forte so i only
have one recommendation for you and that's: And Then There Were None. I thought that this was such
a feel-good mystery. And Then There Were None was so much fun to me. It's a group of people that go
off into this island. They're all kind of tricked into being there for different reasons and then
based around this children's rhyme they're being picked off one by one in ways that
reflect the rhyme and it's so creepy, but not in a scary way, just in a "draws you closer,
makes you want to keep reading" way. But also the way it's written feels cozy and feels exciting and
fun. I don't know. Agatha Christie hit the tone perfectly for this. But there you go. Those are
some cozy books that make me feel good. Hopefully you'll get some good recommendations off of this.
Also i would love to hear what are some feel good books for you guys because that's what i'm in the
mood for right now and that's what i'm picking up right now. Be sure to continue chatting with me
about this in the comments. Check out my patreon linked in the description if you want to do some
buddy reads with me or see some of my own writing. I'm currently sharing a murder mystery that
i've been writing. I post videos every Tuesday through Friday. I'll see you guys again soon. Bye