{"id":5645,"date":"2020-03-24T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:05:51","slug":"double-down-or-recharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/double-down-or-recharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Down or Recharge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Whether you’re worried about your daughter-in-law who treats Covid-19 patients in a NYC hospital (like I am), trying to double as a home-school teacher while tele-working, or scrambling to find health insurance when you’re newly unemployed, you’re probably dealing with a lot more stress today than you were a month ago. Even people in fairly stable situations are more anxious and isolated than normal.<\/p>\n

In such times, it’s tempting to turn to books for a different perspective. Here are suggestions in case you want to double down and immerse yourself into alternate scenarios of desperate survival. If, instead, you want to completely escape to recharge, a second list for that is below, too.<\/p>\n

DOUBLE DOWN:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Life As We Knew It<\/a> ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
\n\u00a0 When the moon gets knocked off orbit by an asteroid, the U.S. electric grid, weather, and commerce are disrupted. A family survives on what’s in the pantry.<\/p>\n

Dry<\/a> ~Neal Shusterman
\n\u00a0 When a water shortage results in dry taps in California, people get desperate.<\/p>\n

Salt to the Sea<\/a> ~ Ruta Sepetys
\n\u00a0 In World War II, four teens try to escape danger from every direction and end up on the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stations Eleven<\/a> ~ Emily St. John Mandel
\n\u00a0 A plague wipes through the U.S., decimating NYC.<\/p>\n

The Martian<\/a> ~ Andy Weir
\n\u00a0 A stranded astronaut has to survive alone on Mars with basically only potatoes.<\/p>\n

Monument 14<\/a> ~ Emmy Laybourne
\n\u00a0 An airborne disease effects people differently according to blood type, and teens take shelter in a sealed-up Wal*Mart.<\/p>\n

ESCAPE AND RECHARGE:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rook<\/a>\u00a0~ Sharon Cameron
\nNo one suspects a certain proper miss to be the spy who is pivotal in a futuristic French Revolution.<\/p>\n

Along for the Ride<\/a> ~ Sarah Dessen
\n\u00a0 A lonely teen spends her summer by the sea with her deeply flawed father, his new wife and their baby.<\/p>\n

This Is How It Always Is<\/a> ~ Laurie Frankel
\n\u00a0A family cherishes their gender-fluid child, making mistakes and loving boldly.<\/p>\n

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill<\/a> ~ Abbi Waxman
\n\u00a0 Who\u00a0knew that finding family could be so complicated?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>How To Marry a Marquis<\/a> ~ Julia Quinn
\n\u00a0 A romantic frolic with absurdity and wit, typical of this author.<\/p>\n

Attachments<\/a>\u00a0~ Rainbow Rowell
\n\u00a0 An introverted IT guy falls for a worker whose emails he’s supposed to be surveilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether you’re worried about your daughter-in-law who treats Covid-19 patients in a NYC hospital (like I am), trying to double as a home-school teacher while tele-working, or scrambling to find health insurance when you’re newly unemployed, you’re probably dealing with a lot more stress today than you were a month ago. Even people in fairly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[200,1058,871],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-best-books","tag-emily-st-john-mandel","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}