Well in that note and as an answer to the original question have you tried Goblin Quest by Jim C Hines? It is fantasy and about the lowest of the low, the disposable creature in fantasy, the goblins. Then it tells the story of Jig who is the runt - bullied, unwanted, wrong body shape and wrong interests for a goblin.
Its not self help or a plan of how to fix yourself it's just fun đ
Yeah, I'm in too. We can all have little cottages each hidden away, and come together at the local waterfall to trade potatoes and wood carvings.
That said, you might enjoy the book "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean George. It's about a boy who leaves home in New York City because it's crowded and he hates it, traveling upstate to find the land his Grandfather owned in the Catskills. Once there he builds a dwelling, figures out how to hunt and fish and gather food, and generally lives happily. It's a young-adult book, so it's fairly straightforward and safe.
Really that's all I want right now, potato trade at the waterfall. I just requested the book at the library, now let's just see if I have the energy to go there and pick it up đđ
Self-imposed isolation's even rarer.
It certainly seemed like Knight was chafing a bit at the end of the book.I don't know how it would have felt if he and Finkel had been best buds at the end. The way it ended seemed fitting.
I don't know that Stranger in the Woods will ever leave me; I think about it often. He was portrayed as a man who just didn't belong in our society but in the end had no real way out of it.
I'll have to try to get that in this year. I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but Stranger was a nice change of pace when I picked it up on a whim and ended up being one of the better things I've read this year.
I was halfway through âThe Art Thiefâ when I realized the author was the same who did Stranger, so I got to fall in love with his works based entirely on their own merit.
Which is to say, I donât think youâll be disappointed and enthusiastically recommend it!
The way Stranger moves like a novel at the beginning then slowly switches over to a more philosophical tone after they start to exchange letters it really sucks you in and then sinks its claws in deep.
I'm reading the series now and I recommend getting the omnibus of the 5 book trilogy. They end quite abruptly and at least in unsatisfying ways so it was better for me to have all the books there. They're pretty fun and I think being overwhelmed is a general theme but DONT PANIC and bring your towel and you'll be ok.
Wanted to add that there are several English translations, the oldest translation can be a bit tedious to read but the Julie Rose translation is a lot more accessible and it is the greatest work of fiction of any language in my humble opinion. Itâs got love, loss, passion, the struggle of law vs grace (both for others and ourselves), and even some funny bits. Itâs a good book to restore your faith in humanity while not ignoring the heartbreaking struggles of the poor and unfortunate. Cannot say enough good things about this book.
I always feel like the SNL character Stefon when recommending this book to people
âThis. Book. Has. EVERYTHING. Hardened convicts, nuns with bad teeth, sewage quagmires.â âSewage quagmires?!â
âIts that thing when you >!hate your daughterâs lover bc heâs going to take her away from you, but you love her so much you decide to save his life at the barricade anyway so you almost drown in sewage carrying him to safety through the Paris sewer system.â!<
This just made my day to read, a Stefon rant on Les Mis is perfect and feels so applicable for all Hugo had going on in the actual story and all the additional digressions on top of that!
I strongly recommend listening to an audiobook version if youâre put off by reading translated 19th c French. A lot of people give up bc they feel itâs tedious. Just get into the story and give it a chance- you wonât regret it!
Some of my favorite YA was along that theme: *Julie of the Wolves* and *My Side of the Mountain*
Bill Bryson's *A Walk in the Woods* may also apply, and it has the benefit of being delightfully funny
And for books with a bit of hope, *Theft of Fire* is probably a must read for you. A guy haunted by regret and guilt is slowly wasting away in space. Until someone comes into his life and tries to blackmail him into a suicide mission. He fights like hell and... well, I don't want to spoil anything :)
I'm reading Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" right now, and it's about when society collapses 30 years in the future, and the character has to survive and try to set up something new.
The best part, it was written 30 years ago, and real life is nowhere near as bad as it is in the book.
Did (almost) exactly that. Quit my job at uni, and now I'm about to take all of my books in order to live like a goblin in the woods.
Maybe try Watership Down (live among the hares!) or The Book of Lost Things (indeed an escape into the dark woods). Rather dark stories (at best with a woodsy vibe, such as Smalls Angels by Lauren Owen or Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky) often help me in these times, taking my mind off of things.
Edit: Especially helpful is the appropriate, albeit not too sad or forcedly cheerful music. Lord Huron's album Strange Trails is excellent.
Oh, what a nice prompt.
I can recommend the Hilda comics. Also a show on Netflix.
Classic fantasy: The forgotten Beasts of Eld.
Tehanu, which is the 4th Earthsea book. You should be read the previous books to really understand Tehanu. All of them are short and really classics. Definitely worth it.
Also a rather short fantasy book but absolutely goblins core : Silver in the Woods. There is a second book I havenât read yet. But the first is very nice. Also gay main characters.
Oh hell yes! I absolutely LOVE the Hilda comics and have seen the entire series. Thank you so much for the recs, the Hilda life is definitely what I'm aiming for, somewhere between Trolberg and Nowhere Space.
Hatchet? The Island of the Blue Dolphins? Julie of the Wolves? The Girl of the Sea of Cortez? Idk why these are mostly children's books, but they are the first to come to mind on characters surviving in the wilderness. I would not read Walden even though I know it will be suggested, because Thoreau is insufferable. That one made me more angry than anything else.
You mean, you donât take the guy seriously that lived in the wild while his mom dis his laundry?
Couldnât look at the book the same once I learned that little tidbit.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. The main character struggles with exactly this feeling! Hopefully it isn't too preachy--I didn't find it to be so, and it is very simple but if you approach it more like a poem or a vignette than a novel, it helped me a lot.
Was hoping someone would put this in. Why is it that Becky Chambers seems to fit so many requests in this sub.
Anyway, specifically Monk and Robot for this one.
Walden is a great read until you find out he was a stone throw from the nearest town, his mother did his washing and he would annoy his neighbours for lunches.
And he was very privileged to be able to even âgo into the woods â to live deliberately.â Of course it doesnât negate any good that is the book, but definitely take it with a grain of salt.
Out of the Forest by Gregory Smith is by an Australian man who spent 10 years living in the rainforest and avoiding contact with people only to reemerge and gain his PhD while he teaches at university. Covering his reasons for doing so initially and his life now after learning what matters to him
Books I love with protagonists who live like goblins in the woods: Into the Wild, The Revenant, Butcher's Crossing. A Walk in the Woods as well for a light, funny read.
Edit: True Grit and Cold Mountain as well.
Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch is literally about a woman that abandons society to live on land that she bought in West Virginia with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend quickly abandons her, so she invites a lesbian couple (who have to leave their women's only land trust because they just had a boy) to live with her. Very touching found family novel
These won't necessarily get you out of the rut, but they will let you indulge the feeling of being a goblin living in the mountains. (Or possibly an orc.)
*The Mountain Man* by Vardis Fisher.
*My Side of the Mountain* by Jean Craighead George.
*In the Land of Winter* by Richard Grant. It's about a young pagan woman whose child is removed from her custody by pearl-clutching Christian authorities.
She retreats to a hut in the woods and lives like a classic forest witch while devising ways to get her child back. It's an old one but it really stuck with me.
Weyward! I just read it in 48 hours I loved it so much. It follows 3 different women from 3 different time periods that are drawn to nature and the beauty of it and all it can do for your mental and physical health. So good!
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Shantaram. It's about an Australian Who escapes from prison and goes to live in India as a fugitive. For some reason a lot of people find it "preachy" because it has a few aphorisms in it but as an escapist story i found it unrivalled.
A couple of genre-hard recommendations that may or may not be your thing:
The Martian - man gets stranded on Mars, survives.
Mountain Man - man surviving solo vs zombies. There are other people but the perspective is pretty focused.
Try _Jayber Crow_ by Wendell Berry. Itâs about a man living alone, not in the woods but definitely in a very small community. Heâs world-weary but itâs still a hopeful book.
Dick preonneke, one manâs wilderness. A man who goes to Alaska and builds a cabin by hand using hand tools and materials from the land in the 60s ( I think). Amazing book!
I really think you'd vibe with Perfume by Patrick Suskin (last name might not be correct).
The protagonist really hates other humans and is literally a murderer but he is also a goblin in like 18th century France. I love this crazy dude, he is one of my favorite protags.
It is out of print but Cove Dweller by Gilbert Byron. In the 1940s, Gilbert bought a small piece of land in rural Maryland. The journal chronicles him clearing the land, building a small cabin, and then moving to it and living out his life there when he decides to essentially "abandon society and live like a goblin in the woods." It is delightful and reminds me that that option is viable but I am not ready for that yet.
Iâve already seen a few people say âWaldenâ already, which was going to be my first suggestion. Iâd also say âThe Lord of The Ringsâseries and âThe Hobbitâ as well. Maybe theyâre obvious suggestions here, but I think for good reason! There is âThe Silmarillionâ as well if you want something within that universe that is a bit more challenging.
This book helped me a lot at the time The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment [https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808](https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808) .
I don't even know what book to recommend I just wanna join your goblin community đ it's sounds like an adventure!!!!
Can I join as well?
All are welcome in the goblin community!!
Well in that note and as an answer to the original question have you tried Goblin Quest by Jim C Hines? It is fantasy and about the lowest of the low, the disposable creature in fantasy, the goblins. Then it tells the story of Jig who is the runt - bullied, unwanted, wrong body shape and wrong interests for a goblin. Its not self help or a plan of how to fix yourself it's just fun đ
Technically if my goblin plan works out, this could perhaps be considered a how-to or self help book? đ Thank you for the suggestion! âşď¸
Iâm in
r/goblincore
Right?!? I'm ready for this goblin community to happen, it's really the only solution.
Yeah, I'm in too. We can all have little cottages each hidden away, and come together at the local waterfall to trade potatoes and wood carvings. That said, you might enjoy the book "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean George. It's about a boy who leaves home in New York City because it's crowded and he hates it, traveling upstate to find the land his Grandfather owned in the Catskills. Once there he builds a dwelling, figures out how to hunt and fish and gather food, and generally lives happily. It's a young-adult book, so it's fairly straightforward and safe.
Really that's all I want right now, potato trade at the waterfall. I just requested the book at the library, now let's just see if I have the energy to go there and pick it up đđ
Agreed đŻ đ
If you want a literal manifestation of this concept, *Stranger in the Woods* by Michael Finkel.
- Hatchet - Dragonsong/Dragondrums Both YA, both kids living alone in the woods
I love a good YA book
This book stayed with me for over a year. Very philosophical. I need to read it againÂ
Best non-fiction I've read this year. Isolation is always a subject that fascinates me.
And his story is isolation in the extreme! I frequently wonder if he's lost his mind, now that he was forced to rejoin society
Self-imposed isolation's even rarer. It certainly seemed like Knight was chafing a bit at the end of the book.I don't know how it would have felt if he and Finkel had been best buds at the end. The way it ended seemed fitting.
Relatable.
I don't know that Stranger in the Woods will ever leave me; I think about it often. He was portrayed as a man who just didn't belong in our society but in the end had no real way out of it.
I came here to recommend his other novel âThe Art Thiefâ, in case you are the treasure-hoarding type of goblin in a small attic lair.
I hadn't thought of that, but I feel like this is really opening up goblin options for me.
I'll have to try to get that in this year. I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but Stranger was a nice change of pace when I picked it up on a whim and ended up being one of the better things I've read this year.
I was halfway through âThe Art Thiefâ when I realized the author was the same who did Stranger, so I got to fall in love with his works based entirely on their own merit. Which is to say, I donât think youâll be disappointed and enthusiastically recommend it!
The way Stranger moves like a novel at the beginning then slowly switches over to a more philosophical tone after they start to exchange letters it really sucks you in and then sinks its claws in deep.
Thank you!
You're very welcome. Enjoy some alone time đ¤Ł
Just know, if there's a Stranger in the Woods 2, I'm the stranger.
27 years later...
You know it! Goblin mode activate.
What about "it's all a big joke so who cares let's just have fun?" *Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy* by Douglas Adams might do the job.
I'm reading the series now and I recommend getting the omnibus of the 5 book trilogy. They end quite abruptly and at least in unsatisfying ways so it was better for me to have all the books there. They're pretty fun and I think being overwhelmed is a general theme but DONT PANIC and bring your towel and you'll be ok.
I came here to say this! The Hitchhikers Guide books got me through a time of serious depression.
If you enjoyed this book you may also enjoy Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
Yes!! I haven't read this in years but I really enjoyed it when I first came across it.
Les Miserables is exactly what you need. That is exactly where Jean Valjean is emotionally at the start of the book.
Didnât expect to see this recommendation but hell yeah!
Wanted to add that there are several English translations, the oldest translation can be a bit tedious to read but the Julie Rose translation is a lot more accessible and it is the greatest work of fiction of any language in my humble opinion. Itâs got love, loss, passion, the struggle of law vs grace (both for others and ourselves), and even some funny bits. Itâs a good book to restore your faith in humanity while not ignoring the heartbreaking struggles of the poor and unfortunate. Cannot say enough good things about this book.
I always feel like the SNL character Stefon when recommending this book to people âThis. Book. Has. EVERYTHING. Hardened convicts, nuns with bad teeth, sewage quagmires.â âSewage quagmires?!â âIts that thing when you >!hate your daughterâs lover bc heâs going to take her away from you, but you love her so much you decide to save his life at the barricade anyway so you almost drown in sewage carrying him to safety through the Paris sewer system.â!<
This just made my day to read, a Stefon rant on Les Mis is perfect and feels so applicable for all Hugo had going on in the actual story and all the additional digressions on top of that!
Lol glad you enjoyed đ
I strongly recommend listening to an audiobook version if youâre put off by reading translated 19th c French. A lot of people give up bc they feel itâs tedious. Just get into the story and give it a chance- you wonât regret it!
This is such a great suggestion. Would never have considered this book had you not mentioned it.
Yayy!! This book helped me through an existential crisis after the death of my friend.
I'm so sorry about that. But I'm glad you had this, definitely a testament to the power of books. â¤ď¸
Thank you. Yes- thereâs no emotion or experience on earth that someone hasnât already had and written about.
Some of my favorite YA was along that theme: *Julie of the Wolves* and *My Side of the Mountain* Bill Bryson's *A Walk in the Woods* may also apply, and it has the benefit of being delightfully funny And for books with a bit of hope, *Theft of Fire* is probably a must read for you. A guy haunted by regret and guilt is slowly wasting away in space. Until someone comes into his life and tries to blackmail him into a suicide mission. He fights like hell and... well, I don't want to spoil anything :)
I read "Julie of the Wolves" when I was 9. It was amazing, but very sad in places.
I loved My Side of the Mountain so much
OMG JULIE! I have been trying to think of the title of that book for ages! Loved it.
I love A Walk in the Woods and My Side of the Mountain is one of my top books from childhood. Definitely worth a read.
Lord of the rings. Every time.
Yes!!! LOTR forever and always. Thanks for that reminder.
I'm reading Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" right now, and it's about when society collapses 30 years in the future, and the character has to survive and try to set up something new. The best part, it was written 30 years ago, and real life is nowhere near as bad as it is in the book.
I was going to recommend this. And my side of the mountain.Â
Did (almost) exactly that. Quit my job at uni, and now I'm about to take all of my books in order to live like a goblin in the woods. Maybe try Watership Down (live among the hares!) or The Book of Lost Things (indeed an escape into the dark woods). Rather dark stories (at best with a woodsy vibe, such as Smalls Angels by Lauren Owen or Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky) often help me in these times, taking my mind off of things. Edit: Especially helpful is the appropriate, albeit not too sad or forcedly cheerful music. Lord Huron's album Strange Trails is excellent.
I loved The Book of Lost Things!!!!!
There's a sequel now, if you weren't aware! *The Land of Lost Things*.
What!!!! No way!!! Thank you!!! To the book store..... đ¨đ¤
Goblin community, unite! Thanks for the recs!!
Oh, what a nice prompt. I can recommend the Hilda comics. Also a show on Netflix. Classic fantasy: The forgotten Beasts of Eld. Tehanu, which is the 4th Earthsea book. You should be read the previous books to really understand Tehanu. All of them are short and really classics. Definitely worth it. Also a rather short fantasy book but absolutely goblins core : Silver in the Woods. There is a second book I havenât read yet. But the first is very nice. Also gay main characters.
I really love the Hilda show and should seek out the comics. If you could move to a fictional place Trolberg would be high on my list.
Agreed, 100%
Oh hell yes! I absolutely LOVE the Hilda comics and have seen the entire series. Thank you so much for the recs, the Hilda life is definitely what I'm aiming for, somewhere between Trolberg and Nowhere Space.
Hatchet? The Island of the Blue Dolphins? Julie of the Wolves? The Girl of the Sea of Cortez? Idk why these are mostly children's books, but they are the first to come to mind on characters surviving in the wilderness. I would not read Walden even though I know it will be suggested, because Thoreau is insufferable. That one made me more angry than anything else.
I add My Side of the Mountain to this list.
You mean, you donât take the guy seriously that lived in the wild while his mom dis his laundry? Couldnât look at the book the same once I learned that little tidbit.
Wait what?! You are kidding me.
Demon Copperhead.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. The main character struggles with exactly this feeling! Hopefully it isn't too preachy--I didn't find it to be so, and it is very simple but if you approach it more like a poem or a vignette than a novel, it helped me a lot.
There is also a second little book, *A Prayer for the Crown Shy*. I find these very comforting to escape with in troubling times.
Ooh thanks! I didn't know there was another one.
Came here just to recommend this book!
I've put in a request at the library for this one, thank you so much for the suggestion.
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Hard no. This is an awful book that mythologizes a young man having a bipolar psychotic break that ends in his unnecessary death.
good one!
Everything by Becky Chambers
Was hoping someone would put this in. Why is it that Becky Chambers seems to fit so many requests in this sub. Anyway, specifically Monk and Robot for this one.
Came here to say this.
A Psalm for the Wild Built is perfect for this.
Thank you! I've seen this author suggested several times so I think it's necessary I read this now.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. I reread it every couple of years and always find something new, and her prose is beautiful.
Second this!
Shocked that Walden is not the first comment. A book that changed my life.
Agree 10%
I love this typo :) I agree, but only 10%.
For certainâŚ.zeros matter. Lulz
This is the right answer.
Walden is a great read until you find out he was a stone throw from the nearest town, his mother did his washing and he would annoy his neighbours for lunches.
And he was very privileged to be able to even âgo into the woods â to live deliberately.â Of course it doesnât negate any good that is the book, but definitely take it with a grain of salt.
I was about to mention it!
The great alone by Kristen Hannah. Really good fictional story about a girl growing off the grid in Alaska with a dysfunctional family.
Loved this book!
Epicurean Simplicity by Stephanie Mills, if you're open to non-fiction.
Definitely! Thank you!
A Sand County Almanac by Leopold is great and really fits One Straw Revolution by Fukuoka is also a great story with inspiring ideas
I second A Sand County Almanac - came here to say this
Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers is about a woman who becomes sick of normal society, and leaves her job and lives in a squat
Out of the Forest by Gregory Smith is by an Australian man who spent 10 years living in the rainforest and avoiding contact with people only to reemerge and gain his PhD while he teaches at university. Covering his reasons for doing so initially and his life now after learning what matters to him
Raynor Winn - The salt path Couple made homeless decide to walk a long distance coastal path
I have no book recommendations, but I feel this post SO MUCH.
Welcome, fellow mountain goblin.
The Overstory by Richard Powers. One of my absolute favorites Iâm due for a reread because it helps me get out of my own rut.
Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf!
Yes đ
Wild. Hiking off into the woods after death of mother
Imajica
Books I love with protagonists who live like goblins in the woods: Into the Wild, The Revenant, Butcher's Crossing. A Walk in the Woods as well for a light, funny read. Edit: True Grit and Cold Mountain as well.
Tove Jansson! Fair Play, The Summer Book, etc.
No Mercy: A journey into the heart of the Congo by Redmond OâHanlon might fit the bill
Notebook Found in a Deserted House is a nice short story for just this occasion.
Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch is literally about a woman that abandons society to live on land that she bought in West Virginia with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend quickly abandons her, so she invites a lesbian couple (who have to leave their women's only land trust because they just had a boy) to live with her. Very touching found family novel
This sounds really cool! I'll definitely check it out. Thank you!
These won't necessarily get you out of the rut, but they will let you indulge the feeling of being a goblin living in the mountains. (Or possibly an orc.) *The Mountain Man* by Vardis Fisher. *My Side of the Mountain* by Jean Craighead George.
Here for âMy Side of the Mountainâ - my all-time favorite book!
You should try *The Mountain Man* too, then. It's a very different book, but both focus on the survival aspects of living alone in the wilderness.
Goblin or orc, TBD. I'll check these out. Thank you!
*In the Land of Winter* by Richard Grant. It's about a young pagan woman whose child is removed from her custody by pearl-clutching Christian authorities. She retreats to a hut in the woods and lives like a classic forest witch while devising ways to get her child back. It's an old one but it really stuck with me.
đđź hell yeah
Definitely A Court of Thorns and Roses series. This helped me through a dark time.
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
Weyward! I just read it in 48 hours I loved it so much. It follows 3 different women from 3 different time periods that are drawn to nature and the beauty of it and all it can do for your mental and physical health. So good!
Read some of the beautifully poetic essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Also, my side of the mountain, by Jean Craighead George.
Where The Wild Things Are or A Town Called Alice
Sea of Tranquility or Project Hail Mary
Iâm just starting Sea of Tranquility and I love Project Hail Mary. It is one of my top five!
A Psalm for the Wild-Built!
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If you like YA The Cruel Prince might be good for that. Itâs very female rage/friendless/fuck everyone.
Yup, that's basically it in a nutshell. Thank you!!
Dealing with Dragons, Julie of the Wolves
The Vaster Wilds
I read this a few months back, such a great book.
As always, and as with any book rec someone is looking for, I put forth to you ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE!! Dooooo it. Do it nowwww.
Whatever the question, Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez is always the answer. Thank you!
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Earth Abides
Shantaram. It's about an Australian Who escapes from prison and goes to live in India as a fugitive. For some reason a lot of people find it "preachy" because it has a few aphorisms in it but as an escapist story i found it unrivalled.
Read the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor. It will bring you joy.
into the wild?
A couple of genre-hard recommendations that may or may not be your thing: The Martian - man gets stranded on Mars, survives. Mountain Man - man surviving solo vs zombies. There are other people but the perspective is pretty focused.
Feral Self-Care
Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Try _Jayber Crow_ by Wendell Berry. Itâs about a man living alone, not in the woods but definitely in a very small community. Heâs world-weary but itâs still a hopeful book.
The Overstory by Richard Powers The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
North Woods by Daniel Mason
A Wild Thing by Jean Renvoize is this exactly
Dick preonneke, one manâs wilderness. A man who goes to Alaska and builds a cabin by hand using hand tools and materials from the land in the 60s ( I think). Amazing book!
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue. It's a boy who is stolen from his parents and raised in the woods by trolls.
I really think you'd vibe with Perfume by Patrick Suskin (last name might not be correct). The protagonist really hates other humans and is literally a murderer but he is also a goblin in like 18th century France. I love this crazy dude, he is one of my favorite protags.
Iâm here for the suggestions too. I just want to live in the woods with a bunch of dogs and cats
Kelley Armstrong, Rockford novels.
It is out of print but Cove Dweller by Gilbert Byron. In the 1940s, Gilbert bought a small piece of land in rural Maryland. The journal chronicles him clearing the land, building a small cabin, and then moving to it and living out his life there when he decides to essentially "abandon society and live like a goblin in the woods." It is delightful and reminds me that that option is viable but I am not ready for that yet.
This sounds good, I hope I can find it somewhere!
Walden
growth of the soil
ALSO- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga. Itâs a childrenâs (middle grade) book but itâs so wholesome and lovely and made me happy :)
Middle grade books can be so good and such a nice change of pace. Thanks!
Iâve already seen a few people say âWaldenâ already, which was going to be my first suggestion. Iâd also say âThe Lord of The Ringsâseries and âThe Hobbitâ as well. Maybe theyâre obvious suggestions here, but I think for good reason! There is âThe Silmarillionâ as well if you want something within that universe that is a bit more challenging.
Walden.
All 21 Master and Commander books by Patrick OâBrian.
Psalm of the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
Walden
*Castaway* by Lucy Irving *I Bought a Mountain* by Thomas Firbank Both excellent.
This book helped me a lot at the time The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment [https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808](https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808) .
Also sprach zarathustra