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A review by rachana
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite by Laura Freeman
5.0
This book is a tremendous gift. There was something deeply satisfying about sitting down to read this with hot cups of oat milk and dark chocolate or with a dinner of warm pasta drowned in Parmesan cheese and white sauce.
It was the reference to the Edge Chronicles and the harvests from the Deepwoods that finally brought on a wave of nostalgia. I had read that series years ago craving earth apples and delberries. I was obsessed with the escape it gave me as a kid.
And there are so many beautiful, wonderful quotes in here:
'This is what Mum had tried to tell me. That eating would allow me to pursue the things I loved.'
'She wanted only for me to have enough energy to read books, go to school, then to university, to have friends...to sketch, to walk in the park, travel abroad, to have a life worth living.'
'When I read, when I walk, when I am taken out of myself I am quiet, my mind is steady.'
It was the reference to the Edge Chronicles and the harvests from the Deepwoods that finally brought on a wave of nostalgia. I had read that series years ago craving earth apples and delberries. I was obsessed with the escape it gave me as a kid.
And there are so many beautiful, wonderful quotes in here:
'This is what Mum had tried to tell me. That eating would allow me to pursue the things I loved.'
'She wanted only for me to have enough energy to read books, go to school, then to university, to have friends...to sketch, to walk in the park, travel abroad, to have a life worth living.'
'When I read, when I walk, when I am taken out of myself I am quiet, my mind is steady.'