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A review by stephaliman
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
4.0
This book is supposed to be read slowly and only whenever you feel like you need a bit of comfort in this world.
But... over the past few days, I had THE most stupefyingly horrendous series of unfortunate events happen.
And so, feeling a bit down, I read this book like a crazed person, letting the hopeful words seep into me until eventually I felt okay again! Matt is quickly starting to become one of my favorite authors ever!!!!
Here's my favorite page (this one was a jaw-dropping moment; it was such a revelation that I had to remember to close my mouth after about five minutes):
But... over the past few days, I had THE most stupefyingly horrendous series of unfortunate events happen.
And so, feeling a bit down, I read this book like a crazed person, letting the hopeful words seep into me until eventually I felt okay again! Matt is quickly starting to become one of my favorite authors ever!!!!
Spoiler
Here's my favorite page (this one was a jaw-dropping moment; it was such a revelation that I had to remember to close my mouth after about five minutes):
"We are often encouraged to see life as one continual uphill climb. We talk about ladders without even thinking. Career ladders. Property ladders. Of being on the top rung of the ladder. Or the bottom rung of the ladder. We talk of climbing the ladder. We talk of rising up. We talk of uphill struggles. In doing so we visualize life as a kind of vertical race, like we are human skyscrapers reaching for the clouds. And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below in the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall."