What's your warm blanket book?
Dec 9 2024
Throughout my life, I’ve turned to books like a cozy quilt in the middle of winter. When I need a warm blanket book, I always pick up “Labyrinths” or any other collection of short short stories by the Argentinian master, Jorge Luis Borges. It only takes about 5-10 minutes to read one of his stories, but they never fail to evoke a sense of awe and wonder at our strange universe. They also work well as bedtime reading, falling asleep while lost in a great and twisty story. I asked the rest of the Fable editorial team to tell me what books feel like a cozy blanket in winter for them. Hayley Dennings: I must go with “Honey Girl” by Morgan Rogers. Reading that book made me feel so seen and reassured pretty much every ache and anxiety I have had about growing up and not feeling successful enough.Cameron Capello: What a tough question. I’d have to go with “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman. It’s a powerful story for lost girls in their 20s (at least, it was for me). It helped me understand pieces of myself I never even attempted to acknowledge before, and I’m indebted to Batuman’s humorous outlook on the horror that is adulthood.Desiree Worrall-Belanger: It’s really hard to just choose ONE, but I think I’d have to say "Your Name" by Makoto Shinkai - yes, there’s a light novel for that movie! Does it make me sob uncontrollably every single time? Absolutely. But it helps me get all of these jumbled thoughts and emotions out of my system while also enjoying a heartbreakingly beautiful love story.
Honey Girl
By Morgan RogersWith her new PhD in astronomy in hand, Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas. She’s a certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.
Labyrinths
By Jorge Luis BorgesStories that are always slightly skewed, vaguely unsettling, again dislocating your sense of reality and truth.
Your Name
By Makoto ShinkaiMitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo.
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