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Slow Books For Bad Weeks

Nothing here has a plot that will punish you for putting it down.

a list by Ffion8 books

  1. Siddhartha

    Read it near water if you can.

    Hermann Hesse

    1
  2. Meditations

    One entry a night.

    Marcus Aurelius

    2
  3. Just Kids

    Patti Smith

    3
  4. Cheer Up Love

    Funnier than the rest of this list and it belongs anyway.

    Susan Calman

    4
  5. Gilead

    Marilynne Robinson

    5
  6. H Is for Hawk

    Not slow, exactly. Right for the same weeks.

    Helen Macdonald

    6
  7. Devotions

    Mary Oliver

    7
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