Books that helped my anxiety 🫂 (nonfiction book recs!)

[@natalieandco]

ooooh i realllly love this tone shift for you and I'm soooo glad to hear you enjoyed and benefitted from these reads so much!! reading is the best gift we could ask for truly. 9:55 truly the yarn does take over, no matter how hard you try and keep it away the yarn will find you.

[@mikalareads]

OMGGGG, WHy did this make me cackle for like 5 mins straight: "truly the yarn does take over, no matter how hard you try and keep it away the yarn will find you." I swear to you I just KNOW if I ever get into this hobby its gonna be over for me...EVERYYYYthing is gonna be yarn even my hair 😅😅😅😅

[@javapick]

Love love love! Adding some of these to my TBR. Thank you for sharing!

[@mikalareads]

Thank YOU for watching and PLEASE let me know if you get to read any of these!!! I would love to discuss!! 💗💌🥰📚

[@ChrisDailyReading]

Sensitive sounds very good! Definitely something for my tbr. Love the shirt + makeup combo!

[@mikalareads]

It really was an excellent read if you get a chance to check it out I would love to hear your thoughts!! And AW Thank you so much!!!

[@CraftingVicky]

I just borrowed on Libby the book how to clean house when you are drowning. Looking forward to those tips

[@mikalareads]

Ohhh That is so awesome, I really hope you will enjoy it as much as I did!!! It really helped me! 💌🙏💗

[@fayesparallelstories]

It's really wonderful to see that the right books found you! Thank you for reminding me of Unraveling, I had that on my radar last year and then totally forgot about it. Unfortunately I find it particularly difficult to focus on reading when my mental health is not good. But today, thanks to your video, I will try to replace my mindless scrolling with picking up my current book!

[@mikalareads]

Oh my goodness I know JUST what you mean when you said you often find it difficult to focus on reading when your mental health is not good, I am the SAME way! I just will have a really hard time keeping my mind on whatever is going on in the book. The last month I have been trying to find more mentally easier reads, and that was when I picked up Unraveling and it was JUST what I needed! I was able to put on the audiobook and it just really helped calm me!!! I hope you are hanging in there and finding some peaceful moments in your day and I hope you are enjoying your current read!! You have also reminded me to stop my mindless scrolling too which I have been doing a LOT of and pick up my book! 😅📚💗🥰

[@M_aryAnne]

What a great reading month hope it continues in all of 24!

[@mikalareads]

YESS I really hope this is the trend for the rest of the year!! 💗🙏

[@TheAbigailDee]

Gonna add How to Keep House right to my library holds!!

[@mikalareads]

1000% I SO would recommend checking out this one! 😍 it's also such a quick read but so impactful!!!

[@aiscahill]

Sounds like you read such excellent non-fiction especially this month. I found crocheting last year and I am so obsessed 😍 You always have the most enviable shirts. I just looked up Goosebumps shirts on Etsy and the majority of what came up was shirts with embroidered geese giving each other fist bumps. Not quite what I was aiming for, but I'm not disappointed 😂

[@mikalareads]

HAHHAHA OMG I have to look up now goosebumps shirts on etsy, that is so funny!!!! Thank you so much Aisling! Okay now I am convinced I really need to start experimenting with crocheting! I just KNOW I would become obsessed as well!

[@bornagainreader]

This video just reminds me that I need to read more self-help books... The ABC Murders cover is so simple but looks so cute (even with the implied blood spatter)! I love the lettering. 6:24 - Same, friend. Same. I saw the cover of Things Have Gotten Worse..., and it looked SO familiar to another cover. Then I checked, and yeah, it's another Eric LaRocca book (You've Lost a Lot of Blood). You've said before that he pumps out great reads overall. This one seems like a super short one to jump into first!

[@mikalareads]

YES okay I have been having the BEST time lately with the self-help books and nonfic reads! I feel like reading from these new genres is making reading feel so new and exciting again! OHH YESS I was so worried going into Things Have Gotten Worse because I have heard mixed reviews on it and I was afraid it could be a love or hate read, thankfully I ended up loving it which makes me SO curious about Eric LaRocca's other books!!! Especially You've Lost a Lot of Blood I definitely am excited to read!!

[@mayatsolova]

Things have gotten worst since we last spoke is absolutely a metaphor, it’s definitely not a surface level read, there is a depth to it and I think about it to this day. ❤❤❤

[@mikalareads]

YESSS Omg Maya, that is SO well said, I agree with you completely! 💌📚💯👏

[@Danni.Dabbles]

I'm so late to this video! How to Keep House While Cleaning sounds fantastic. It is hard to keep up while we've got so much going on. Love to hear you talk about incorporating rest. It is so important! 💯😊I need to pick up more Agatha Christie. Eric LaRocca is an author I still need to get to! So glad you had a good reading month!

[@mikalareads]

That is MORE than okay Danni!!! I feel terrible because I am SO behind on videos and keeping up with everyone! Im starting to think it is actually impossible to keep up LOL! 😅 I am so curious to try more Eric LaRocca! I did not expect to love the book I read from him as much as I did so I am curious what I will think of more of their backlist!!! I hope you are having a lovely April so far!!!!💖💯🙌

[@Danni.Dabbles]

@@mikalareads It is absolutely impossible to keep up. We just do our best!

[@sariefaerie]

I’ve been wanting to read unraveling for so long!! It sounds so good 💕😊✨🧶 I think you would love crochet! But I get having too many hobbies 😹😹

[@mikalareads]

YES I actually thought of you when I read Unraveling because I know you are into the fiber arts!!! HONESTLY I think i would also love Crochet and I think I would become obsessed with it! I actually watch a lot of knitting and chrochet channels on youtube because its so relaxing to me!

[@queenkim8631]

I love your Goosebumps shirt😁🫶

[@mikalareads]

AW Thank you so so much!!!🙏💖💯

[@booksby__emily]

I feel like how to keep house while drowning would be a great book for me to read!! I need to read more from Eric LaRocca I really enjoyed they were here before us by the author!

[@mikalareads]

YES okay I SO strongly recommend How to Keep house while drowning! Its a very quick read too so it was just right for me when I was trying to ease back into reading and also coping with burnout! OHHHH and I NEED to read They were here before us!!!!!! Thank you for reminding me about that one, I am going to put a hold on it at my library! 🙏💖

[@TheBookHerm]

Eric LaRocca is fast becoming a favourite author for me!

[@mikalareads]

I am so impressed by Eric LaRocca!! This was my first read from them but I now want to read their entire backlist!!! 👏💯🙌💕

[@TheBookHerm]

@@mikalareads Same!! I'll look forward to hearing your thoughts in the future 🥰

[@PoppyMorreale]

i get that normally we look for books but in some cases the book comes and finds you. also i remember things have gotten worse since we last spoke thats a book you really got to be focused and have your college literary brain out

[@mikalareads]

YES ohhh that is SO well said, I fully agree 👏💯 It was like the perfect books found me at the perfect time! OKAY RIGHT!!!!!! things have gotten worse since we last spoke felt like such a deep work of fiction! It blew my mind! 🤯

[@Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales]

Peril at End House was well on its way to being in my personal top ten of Agatha Christie novels... until she threw in that trope at the end. It didn't even have anything to do with the main story. It was included for one painfully obvious reason. I don't normally rage against a book, especially Agatha Christie, but I wanted to throw it against the wall. I've read some Christie work that wasn't so good. I even DNFd Passenger to Frankfurt, but I was never so mad as I was with Peril at End House. IMO, the inclusion of that trope ruined what could've been a masterpiece like Roger Ackroyd, Vicarage, And Then There Were None, and Nile. Sorry for my rant. Oh, if you want an underrated Christie novel, check out Dead Man's Folly. It never gets enough love.

[@mikalareads]

OHHH Thank you for recommending Dead Man's Folly!!!!!!! I am going to check this one out now! I have had such a journey with Agatha Christie over the last year! Some I have loved, others not so much, but each one has made me want to read more!

[@Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales]

@@mikalareads you're welcome. I hope you enjoy it when you get a chance to read it.

[@PoppyMorreale]

also have you heard about the trailer for a movie coming out called longlegs staring Nicholas cage its a thriller and it looks really good .And have you seen the new sydney sweeney horror movie trailer the immaculate

[@mikalareads]

OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS. First of all, you always COME THROUGH with the movie recommendations! I had not heard of Longlegs but I just watched the trailer and Holy moly I literally have chilllllls. That trailer was so well done - I cant wait to see the film now! 💯🙏📚 Woah also Immaculate looks so GOOD too!!!!! 🤯😱😱😱 Im gonna need to see them all hahah!!!