30-day Challenge! - Day 5: A book that makes you happy

[siriusedward]

Kathleen wrote: "Come to think of it, just looking at my bookshelf makes me happy. :-)"

This is the truth

[Jen]

Amen. Any book is a happiness. :)

[Loretta]

:)!!!!

[Tasha]

me too!!

I actually have Anne of Green Gables out right now from the library and hope to get to it this month. It's also on my women's century challenge.

[Brina]

I agree with Loretta but if I had to pick I would say anything by Julia Alvarez because she always makes me laugh.

[Hayley]

Yep. Those would be the ones.

[Rhedyn]

Guess How Much I Love You
It's a children's book my mumsie used to read to me.

[Renee]

Anne of Green Gables would have to be mine. I loved that book when I was younger, and read it a couple years ago with another group and still loved it. Anne is just such a likeable, and fun character, I can't help but smile when I read about her troubles!

[Jehona]

Windhaven

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

My current read, whatever it may be. Books are just the bright spot in my day. :)

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

I reread Heidi by Johanna Spyri a couple of years ago. It made me so happy. I loved the book as a child and also a 1960s Disney version of the movie. It was well worth rereading. Anne of Green Gables would be a second place choice. It was the first book I read during lockdown when it first began. Anne was the perfect book to help me develop perspective on a crazy world.

[Sara, New School Classics]

My immediate thought was Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which made me laugh. But, made me happy is another thing, isn't it. I think The Secret Garden, which made me happy as a child and again as an adult.

[Milena]

Lynn wrote: "I reread Heidi by Johanna Spyri a couple of years ago. It made me so happy. I loved the book as a child and also a 1960s Disney version of the movie. It was well worth rereadi..."

Heidi made me really happy also.

[Anne]

84, Charing Cross Road and any book in with Jeeves and Wooster written by P.G. Wodehouse.

[Michaela]

Not easy to say, but probably the Golden Age mysteries or some historical mysteries, as I like the happy ending.

Otherwise children´s books with nice drawings and a positive message, like The Very Hungry Caterpillar or Das kleine Ich-bin-ich (in English Little I-Am-Me by the Austrian author Mira Lobe.

[Sherry]

Not all books make me happy; not even all books that I love make me happy. Cormac McCarthy's The Road would be an example.

Books that do make me happy include Leif Enger's Peace Like a River; Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery; and Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.

[Terry]

Michaela, when I saw that you wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar, it made me happy all over again. That book, along with Goodnight Moon, may tie for the book read most often, not 3 or more times, and not 30 or more times, but possibly 300 or more times. Both were favorites of my daughter’s when she was a child, so they bring me happy memories. Also, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…

[Jen]

The Monster at the End of This Book

[Renee]

Jen wrote: "The Monster at the End of This Book"

I love that book! I used to do my Grover voice whenever I would read any Grover books to the kids. Grover Goes to School was another favourite because he has a bit of a meltdown and that part is just really fun to read :)

[Joseph]

Little Women

[Joseph]

Sherry wrote: "Not all books make me happy; not even all books that I love make me happy. Cormac McCarthy's The Road would be an example...."

I agree Sherry. For me, there is a big difference between being satisfied (some may call that happy), with a reading experience, and being happy. I haven't read The Road, but would say the same thing for McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West...or many many other sad books, that I am glad I read.

[Robin P]

Books in the Bernie and Chet mystery series by Spencer Quinn

[Tara]

Anne (On semi-hiatus) wrote: "84, Charing Cross Road and any book in with Jeeves and Wooster written by P.G. Wodehouse."

Yes!

[Cynda]

Babette’s Feast. I realized that I am ready to return to fairytales, folktales, and myth, and winter's tales.

[Wreade1872]

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun .

Joy tinged with just the right amount of Sad to make the perfect alloy of catharsis resulting in Happy.

[Robin P]

Matt wrote: " Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Probably not the obvious choice for this category, but this book just absolutely grabs me."

Wouldn't have expected that one! Not because I don't like it (I don't!) but because it's so tragic. I suppose it takes you out of your own life for sure.

[Laurie]

There are a few that make me smile thinking about them right now and all but one are from my childhood:
Winnie-the-Pooh
All Things Bright and Beautiful
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Adulthood Is a Myth