>>25115230
Don’t worry anon, there’s nothing wrong with making threads here asking for recommendations. It sounds like you’re in a really brutal situation. I’m really sorry. What kinda books have you liked in the past? I’m trying to think of some. Maybe ‘I am a Cat’ by Soseki? I haven’t read it but seems whimsical

>>25115234
Thank you! I’ve never heard of that one. Sadly the only books I’ve ever taken a liking to are depressing ones like “Stoner” and “Les Miserables” and others like that. I just want to escape to a positive place, but literally just have a good time. Nothing too deep unless it’s constructive. Thank you and anyone else for recommendations. I’ll be monitoring this thread, and if I don’t get back to you it’s because I have to work a 12 hr shift soon and I can’t be on my phone at work. Thank you!

Is Forrest Gump (the book) a good one?

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>>25115230
the Bible plus pic related

The Hobbit and On the Road are my go-tos. Also Calvin and Hobbes but that's not exactly literature.

Houellebecq’s last novel "Annihilation"
Bolaño: 2666
Rilke’s poetry like "Das Buch der Bilder" or "Die Duineser Elegien" if you find an appealing translation into your preferred language

Theocritus' pastoral poetry does it for me.

>>25115230
Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses

>>25115230
I’m really sorry about that anon. I’ll keep you in my thoughts. Have you tried Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais? It’s one of my all time favourites, and is still funny after half a millennium, it always manages to cheer me up plus he’s a brilliant writer.

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>>25115230
Total therapeutic death

>>25115230
I'm really sorry for you pain, anon. Christopher Moore books are very funny (Fool is my favorite) and Winter's Tale is funny and whimsical. And Howl's Moving Castle is funny, whimsical and cozy.

If you want simple stories that have happy endings, I would unironically suggest you check out some YA- NOT the kind on booktok, but the kind you read when you were in school. I used to read books about knights, which I found very comfy. Gerald Morris' Squire's Tales, Tamora Pierce's Tortall series, and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede. I also really loved the Dragonriders of Pern series, though that's a little heavier. Maybe you can re-read books you loved as a kid? Maybe you can read them together with your son?

I really hope this helps you.

>oh look this thread again

godspeed to your son
goodluck with your romantic life