A review by arwenundomiel03
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

emotional informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

This book was a journey for me. I hadn’t read any of Matt Haig’s books for well over two years when I started this one, and I don’t think I was quite prepared for the honesty of his writing. However, as I went through the book, I realised that actually I could do with the content of the book, what he was writing about: experience it, and let it go. I tend to be the kind of person who gets entirely caught up in a book, entirely obsessed with the characters and storyline (I realise you can’t do that with non-fiction or self help books, but still, I get caught up in them nonetheless) but here I was able to read, intake the information like a breath and then breathe it out again. Almost like a meditation. 

So although the content wasn’t always exactly calming (TW: there are many mental health and suicide references), the experience of reading it was one that I have overall found calming. So, I suppose, it fulfilled its title!
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