"Indie Author Insider Influencer" Laona Episode 31

No, exactly.

I will say for me, I'm a very odd person because out of all the books that I've read, there are some that I would reread, don't get me wrong, but there is only one book that I have ever read that I would absolutely reread, technically two, and they're both dark.

So if you want one from my whole life, that would be A Child Called It.

It's not necessarily a comfort book, but I related to a lot of the stuff that he went through.

And so I find myself healing in that book a lot of ways because I'm like, I'm not by myself.

Now, a lot of the stuff that his mom did to him, I didn't have necessarily my hand held onto a stove and things like that.

But there's still some other parallels.

But now as an adult, 100% of the time I will tell you, Under Your Scars is my favorite book that I will, anytime you ask me to reread it, you don't even have to tell me twice.

Okay.

Okay.

It's my favorite book.

And it's not a comfort book in any way, shape or form.

It doesn't have a halfway over after.

It's tragic.

But I think I find solace in that because that book is just so powerful in so many ways.

And I think it sticks with me because it hit me.

Like I finished that book almost a year ago and I'm still to this day, every day I think about that book every single day.

So that would probably be my comfort read.

You go deep.

You're like, I'm not messing

around.

No, I like, I like the cutesy books for sure.

But for me, I, Because of the trauma that I have in my past and then because of my career choices that I've made, like I've worked at a jail where I worked with teenagers and a lot of those teenagers have perished because of their lifestyle choices.

I've had a girl be unalived by her pimp, essentially her trafficker.

I've been connected with so many deep things that around me that that is my solace because I can relate.

No, exactly.

I will say for me, I'm a very odd person because out of all the books that I've read, there are some that I would reread, don't get me wrong, but there is only one book that I have ever read that I would absolutely reread, technically two, and they're both dark.

So if you want one from my whole life, that would be A Child Called It.

It's not necessarily a comfort book, but I related to a lot of the stuff that he went through.

And so I find myself healing in that book a lot of ways because I'm like, I'm not by myself.

Now, a lot of the stuff that his mom did to him, I didn't have necessarily my hand held onto a stove and things like that.

But there's still some other parallels.

But now as an adult, 100% of the time I will tell you, Under Your Scars is my favorite book that I will, anytime you ask me to reread it, you don't even have to tell me twice.

Okay.

Okay.

It's my favorite book.

And it's not a comfort book in any way, shape or form.

It doesn't have a halfway over after.

It's tragic.

But I think I find solace in that because that book is just so powerful in so many ways.

And I think it sticks with me because it hit me.

Like I finished that book almost a year ago and I'm still to this day, every day I think about that book every single day.

So that would probably be my comfort read.

You go deep.

You're like, I'm not messing

around.

No, I like, I like the cutesy books for sure.

But for me, I, Because of the trauma that I have in my past and then because of my career choices that I've made, like I've worked at a jail where I worked with teenagers and a lot of those teenagers have perished because of their lifestyle choices.

I've had a girl be unalived by her pimp, essentially her trafficker.

I've been connected with so many deep things that around me that that is my solace because I can relate.