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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
This novel tracks the story of Bernadette, a once renowned architecture. She stops working as soon as her daughter is born, being bombarded with tons of responsibilities. With her husband being away in Seattle, her world becomes smaller and smaller. Then the family decides to go on a trip to Antarctica, which appears to give Bernadette the opportunity she needs to vanish herself entirely and live her dream life. What follows is a witty, engaging, funny series of events in the form of a collage of documents, emails, transcripts, live blogs, FBI reports and magazine articles, all strung together by Bee, her 15-year-old daughter. But beneath this playfulness is a fascinating story of one woman's retreat from the world. A totally engaging and fun read, I was so hooked to it that I completed it in just a day!!Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Fransec Miralles
Japanese believe that everyone has an Ikigai- a reason to jump out of bed each morning. According to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa- the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life. Ikigai is a short book based on this Japanese concept. According to this concept, we find the deeply sown purpose of our lives from within ourselves by defining our passion, mission, vocation and profession. Inspiring and comforting, this book will give you the life-changing tools to uncover your personal Ikigai. Emma by Jane Austen
Emma is one of my most favourite fictional characters of all times. Emma is beautiful, spoilt, vain, witty, and all things bright and quirky. Emma organizes the lives of her village people and plays matchmaker with some devastating effects. It is a fun read, very entertaining, with some really catchy comic confusion. The book is written in such easy and flowing style that you yourself feel being into it, and not putting it down without completing it!
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
Ove is a cranky old man, commonly known by all as the 'bitter old neighbour', who has lost his will to live after his wife passes away. He decides to kill himself. But luckily for him, he has neighbors who do not let him do so. His neighbors are quirky, entertaining, troublesome, funny- everything Ove resents.He slowly strikes up an unlikely and unwanted friendship with the family and that begins to change his mind about a lot of things. It’s a delightful and heartwarming story. Something in this story instills immense hope and happiness inside me- a must read!One Day in December by Josie Silver
This book is a must read for the hopeless romantic inside all of us! The story revolves around three people, who are entangled with each other in all the weird ways possible. We follow the three of them across ten years of friendship, heartbreak, fate, mistaken chances and much more. The lives of our three main characters are woven together in a really magical way, hard to keep the book away without knowing what happens in the end!Good Vibes, Good Life by Vex King
The Instagram Guru Vex King goes all out in this book to teach us how we can live a life where we put ourselves first. We focus on ourselves, we work on how we speak, think, attend to things. And once we begin to focus on us, we bring small changes in us, and eventually in the world around us. The whole read is beautiful and inspiring- gives you a different perspective of life.
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In these tough times, we have to keep our sanity alive. We have to find some silver lining. Other than these books acting as some real friends, I also work out, dance, write, cook and obviously binge on Netflix a lot! Anything that keeps our spirits high, anything that excites us, anything which is fun- we all should do, with a hope that we come out of these dark days as better version of ourselves.
