What's your apple cider book?
Dec 16 2024
Did you know November 18th is Apple Cider Day? To celebrate, I’m here with some book recs that will give you that comforting, homey feeling, like sipping a warm mug of cider on a crisp day. 1. “Love” by Toni Morrison
The story of Bill Cosey, a deceased hotel owner, is really the story of the people around him, those he affected and who had an effect on him. Life and love feature in this brilliant non-linear, multi-voiced novel; it’s a reading-late-into-the-night-because-there’s-no-good-stopping-point kind of book.2. “The Maid and the Crocodile” by Jordan Ifueko
A cozy story inspired by West African Folklore and “Howl’s Moving Castle,” Ifueko’s novel will warm your hearts and get you all giddy as Small Sade looks for a job—preferably as a maid, with employers who don’t mind her unique appearance and unlucky foot. But before she can be hired, she accidentally binds herself to a powerful god known only as the Crocodile, who is rumored to devour pretty girls. Small Sade entrances the Crocodile with her secret: she is a Curse Eater, gifted with the ability to alter people’s fates by cleaning their houses.3. “Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop” by Hwang Bo-reum (translated by Shanna Tan)
A story of burn out, found family, and fighting for your dreams, this book is one of my favorites to recommend when talking about cozy stories. Yeongju is burned out. With her high--flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.4. “The Healing Season of Pottery” by Yeon Somin (translated by Clare Richards)
Similar to HYUNAM-DONG, our main character is going through a big life shift and finds solace in the small community within a pottery studio. After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty-year-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking to no one for days on end. When she finally emerges, she stumbles upon a pottery studio in her neighborhood and is invited in by the mysterious workshop teacher. The smell of clay, the light filtering through the plant-filled windows, the friendly cat, and the incredible coffee the students drink awaken her senses and make her feel alive and inspired for the first time in months.5. “The Teller of Small Fortunes” by Julie Leong
Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences…Even if it’s a lonely life, it’s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they’re joined by a baker with a "knead" for adventure, and—of course—a slightly magical cat.
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