Audiobook Review: The Comfort Book, by Matt Haig
I found Matt Haig's The Comfort Book in the library listings while looking for his fiction, and decided that in these times, a book with that title was worth a closer look. Title : The Comfort Book Author: Matt Haig. Read by the author Publication Info : Penguin Random House 2021. 3 hours. Hardcover by Penguin Life, 2021, 272 pages. Source: Library Publisher's Blurb (via Goodreads) : “It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.” The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, scienc...