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Eight Book Minimum: Reading anarchy
Jan. 1st, 2021 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spindizzyIn a change from my usual plans for this time of year, this is not a goals post. This is in fact an anti- goals post, because I am officially declaring 2021 a year of reading anarchy.
Like most of the people I know, 2020 was not a good year for my ability to read anything but fanfic – shout out to the Scum Villain's Self-Saving System section of AO3 for getting me through the last half of the year! As for 2021... Well.
*gestures at Brexit* *gestures at pandemic* *gestures at executive dysfunction issues exacerbated by all these apocalypses*
Instead of doing my usual and setting numeric goals so that I can analyse my reading stats, I am officially saying FUCK IT. 2021 is the year where I'm just gonna read whatever and see what happens. If that means that I read nothing but mid-2000s BL manga/speculative fiction anthologies with brightly coloured covers/queer sff novellas from last year/this stack of lesbian detective novels, then so be it! 2021 is not a year for trying to push myself harder, it's a year for recovering.
(I am definitely going to come back and capslock about whatever it is I read though – I haven't finished a full review since... Maybe June? And it's been weird!)
To round off this post, I'm going to ask a question! If you're recovering from a reading slump, do you have a specific book/genre that you turn to? If you have recovered from a reading slump (congratulations!), what was the book that broke you out of it? For me, it was Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian. Yes, I did have a little cry about finally being able to read again, and then another cry because I forgot that having feelings about fictional characters and seeing aspects of yourself represented in fiction was a thing that happened! Feelings are the worst, why did I miss those. ... Whereas Two Rogues Make a Right was exactly what I needed to read at the time, because apparently "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one" and "we are trying our best to respect each other's needs, but also we're terrible at communicating" are just my bulletproof tropes.
Happy new year everyone! Stay safe and take care of yourselves! ♥
Like most of the people I know, 2020 was not a good year for my ability to read anything but fanfic – shout out to the Scum Villain's Self-Saving System section of AO3 for getting me through the last half of the year! As for 2021... Well.
*gestures at Brexit* *gestures at pandemic* *gestures at executive dysfunction issues exacerbated by all these apocalypses*
Instead of doing my usual and setting numeric goals so that I can analyse my reading stats, I am officially saying FUCK IT. 2021 is the year where I'm just gonna read whatever and see what happens. If that means that I read nothing but mid-2000s BL manga/speculative fiction anthologies with brightly coloured covers/queer sff novellas from last year/this stack of lesbian detective novels, then so be it! 2021 is not a year for trying to push myself harder, it's a year for recovering.
(I am definitely going to come back and capslock about whatever it is I read though – I haven't finished a full review since... Maybe June? And it's been weird!)
To round off this post, I'm going to ask a question! If you're recovering from a reading slump, do you have a specific book/genre that you turn to? If you have recovered from a reading slump (congratulations!), what was the book that broke you out of it? For me, it was Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian. Yes, I did have a little cry about finally being able to read again, and then another cry because I forgot that having feelings about fictional characters and seeing aspects of yourself represented in fiction was a thing that happened! Feelings are the worst, why did I miss those. ... Whereas Two Rogues Make a Right was exactly what I needed to read at the time, because apparently "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one" and "we are trying our best to respect each other's needs, but also we're terrible at communicating" are just my bulletproof tropes.
Happy new year everyone! Stay safe and take care of yourselves! ♥
