Get Lost in Literature

Today's Tuesday Top Ten subject is Cozy Reads (Share books that give off a cozy vibe, whether through atmosphere, setting, or some other factor. Please tell us why they’re cozy for you, too!)  I won't make it to ten today, settling for five books that I found to be especially cozy reads. 1.   The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking. One of the coziest books I've ever read, all about living in the world's coziest country, Denmark. If your idea of a cozy is a candlelit room, a warm hearth, a cup of hot cocoa, pastries, and a good book... That's Hygge for you. And that's apparently what makes Denmark the happiest country in the world. 2.   The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. The story takes place on "the edge of the Russian wilderness" and while a snow storm in the Russian forest sounds super chilly, the idea of kids sitting round the fireplace getting told folktales by their nurse while the snow falls outside is super warm. Also as luck wo...

 The older Strike got, the more he’d come to believe that in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life’s course. PI Robin Ellacott is approached by cartoonist, Edie Ledwell, who has been harassed to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Edie rose to fame when her an her boyfriend Josh Blay created The Ink Black Heart, for YouTube and it generated a massive following with a devoted fanbase, complete with overly obsessed superfans. One fan in particular, screen name Anomie, has devoted their life to ruining Edie's, harrassing her through social media and using an online game to help whip the fandom into an angry mob hell bent on punishing the cartoonist. Edie's desperate to learn Anomie's true identity. Robin turns down the case and, a few days later, Edie Ledwell is...