I Don't Like Reading Anymore | A Reflective Ramble
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Mood reading should be an option for everyone, even content creators. Branch out! We'd love to see it!
Yessss! It's so sad that people are feeling like they only can read certain books. I've read at least a couple of people though saying they're going to start focusing more on what they want to read, which is great ^^
“All books are average” giiiirrrrrlllll exactly how I have felt lately.
I'm really excited for you to be branching out with genres! I've been watching your videos on and off for a while now because I really enjoy your personality on camera, but I don't actually read a lot of romance😅 So, excited to see what you pick up this year. But more importantly!! I hope you will fall in love with reading again and just find joy in what you read and create.
I feel the same way!! I am hit and miss for romance but I love Chandler's personality.
Same… I really enjoy listening to her talk but have never subscribed because I don’t really read romance at all!
I gotta say, starting a daily reading routine/ritual has been so helpful for me. I was feeling such a disconnect with my joy for reading until doing this recently.
After work I snuggle up in my reading chair with a decaf coffee & my heated blanket with my cats for 30mins-hour and I look forward to it every day now. It’s made reading more fun & relaxing for me again. Plus, such a big stress reliever for my very stressful job 😅
i love that!
Your expansion outside the romance genre is so real! Feeling stuck within one genre is frustrating and limiting and definitely makes you feel like a chore. Having reading be part of your job and thus making it unenjoyable is such a genuine element of content creation especially surrounding bookish videos. I feel you!! Also, I think my habit of seeking out and reading books that just seem up my alley as opposed to keeping track of hype and popular books has really served me in terms of reading things I enjoy. I hope your 2024 reading year goes better and that your first 6 months of content creation is as exciting and fulfilling as you hope!
I relate so much to this video. I always said that I would never read a book that doesn’t have any romance, but I’ve been craving some variety and originality in 2024. 🤩
You should read Daughter of the moon goddess
@@saraihernandez7951 I will add it to my tbr 🤍
I've noticed this change in the book community, and I am also doing the same. I got tired of hearing twenty people do the same book review over the same books. It's going to be great!
i feel every bit of this!! and actually filmed something super similar this morning rambling away while i got ready lol
there’s so much pressure as a creator to find your niche and stick to it!!! stay in your lane!!! “we don’t want to hear the thriller girl talk about fantasy!” 🥴🥴 etc. and i think it’s bullshit. read whatever you want, mood read, dnf…. we are allowed to do that too 🫶🏼 i really hope you fall back in love with reading in 2024!!
thank you for voicing this stuff 🥰
I'm such a mood reader, so I get this! I feel like everyone should read what makes them happy, content creator or not. I dont know if anyone else feels this way, but I think romance books lately are not hitting like they used to.
My reading life is eclectic, and for me, that is the key to a robust reading life. I'm very much a mood reader, and I will (and do) read every genre. It works out because I can always find a book that suits me in that moment! I can't wait to see which books you love this year!
Last year I got SO burnout on romance. I started dabbling in way more. Specifically the thriller and horror genre. So now I just mix it up and alternate them. It has made me love romance again when I do pick them up! I’m going to try to pick up more general fiction and historical this year too.
I just wanted to say that I think it's so honorable of you to go back to the drawing board instead of simply giving up on reading or giving up on RUclips. Many people faced with the issue of burnout would simply take a step back (there's nothing wrong with that option), but I think that identifying the issue and creating testable solutions for it is so beautiful. It shows you're really passionate and committed to this thing you love. I commend you for it and wish you so much good luck this year in your reading endeavors!
This video is making me excited for your content this year, because I realized recently that reading just Romance wasn’t doing it for me either, and started branching out into other genres too!! It’s getting me excited about reading again, and I was in the WORST rewarding slump for like two years myself. I’m excited to try new things in 2024!!
I agree that it is easy to get burnt out on a genre if you read a lot of it , even if it is your favorite genre! I hope diversifying and being more creative with your reading/channel helps you find your love of reading again!
I think those are some wonderful ideas for the channel! I am excited! ❤ And also very excited for the vampire podcast! 😮😄
As someone who loves your video style and commentary but doesn’t really enjoy romance all that much I’m very excited for this!
i personally read a lot of fantasy, but branching out to dif genres (romance, fiction, mystery) really helps keep me from a reading slump! there are SO many incredible books out there, we should get to explore as many as we can!
i always appreciate how candid and honest you've been with us, and this video is no different. excited to see what you'll show us this year, and hope you'll fall back in love with reading 🧡🧡
Yes to more Fantasy books!
There’s bits of romance in other genres too. There’s full on /romance with other genres too. Read what you like. If something has no romance it’s fine too.
This is painfully relatable
2024 is gonna be our year, i can feel it
I’m so excited for you! Been subscribed to your channel for years and years and love seeing the evolution of your content. Can’t wait for the podcast, in particular!!
I'm so happy to see you wanting to pick up books for yourself! I heard you mention your book goal on the end, and feeling a little like you had a "bad year" last year with your goal (which for you, you may feel that way, but 222 is a massive amount of books, and I'm a librarian! I hear goals daily!) I just hope you take your time with books when you want to and don't press yourself with goals. I have a light goal, but I don't push myself to reach it. I think letting yourself go with it and not focusing on pace might be good as well, especially as you try new things. If you read that much naturally too, that's amazing, but I feel forgetting about a goal feels great! Do what makes you happy! ❤
we love a self-reflecting queen!!! so excited for a new year of reading and watching with you!
After a tough few years, I hit the romance pretty hard. It's something I needed at the time, and I've learned a lot avout myself. But I'm ready to return to more variety. But my romance revolution HAD to happen. Can't wait to see what this journey brings!
I’ve been watching your channel since 2020 and I love all of your videos! I’ve discovered many of my new favorites because of your channel. It’s not just about the amount of books you read or how creative the content is but the way you talk about books. So please read whatever you like and talk about books you want to share with us despite them being the least known books in the world.
I really enjoy when you read different genres, especially thriller and fantasy books!☺️
I love your creative videos, and I'm sure you know which videos of yours get the most views and stuff. But just know, I just love watching you talk about books! Even if it's just a casual car wrap up!
Yay! I cannot wait for the podcast. You are my favorite ever RUclipsr ❤️ and I love when Haden is in your videos. The podcast is going to be so fun!
I think mixing up genres is great! I do this a lot (for example I try to keep the audiobook and the book I’m reading separate genres), and I find get excited for my next read as I’m reading my current. For example I’ve been really enjoying romance, but reading a lot of fantasy, so when I get to finally a romance, it’s exciting and fun!
Color me surprised. I've honestly been waiting for this video for at least a year 🤣
All laughing aside, good for you, Chandler. I hope reading sparks joy for you again this year.
If branching out makes you happy. I am here for it. I when you recommend or go on a rant when you dislike a book. I like your honesty. Keep up the good work. On to 2024.. 🎉
I can’t speak for everyone but for me I’m here bc I love listening to you talking about any books not just one kind
I love how you present things and your takes on stuff and you have really fun ideas for book videos so I’ll be here as long as ur still talking about any kind of book stuff :)
I'm such a mood reader that I started reading manga and poetry. I hope branching out helps!
So excited for your reading year of 2024 and you getting your spark back! Can’t wait to check the podcast out! 🧛♀️
I understand the feeling of not wanting to read.I’ve only been able to read a bit at a time but I think it’s getting better a little bit now.
i felt this entirely as a book content creator on instagram it did become draining and felt like a job to read more than fun last year which caused me a huge reading slump that i’m barely coming out of now.
I learned getting into different genres helped me not feel burnt out so now i create my tbr with almost every genre to give myself options of each mood. So thank you for this video make me not feel alone in this journey of finding love for reading again ! i been watching you since your beginning days of youtube proud of how far you have come and excited for the other new channels and podcast!!!
I love content that creators r so passionate about and have fun making! So please do you queen, I will watch!
Totally relate to wanting more genres as I've gotten older! I used to read nothing but romance, but now I add in quite a few thriller and horror each month, and I have a new appreciation for women's fiction, fantasy, and even some nonfiction.
oh my god my two favourite people on a podcast, y’all have already made my year
I’m excited for the new content! I did something similar last year where I set a goal to read 100 books (I have no idea how you make it over 200 that’s amazing) but I promised myself it would be a mix of genres. I’ve discovered a love of memoirs and thrillers to add to my love of romance.
One of the things that helped me branch out was perusing my libraries what’s new section. They get all sorts of new stuff that wouldn’t make it on an online list, and I get to pick from a true assortment and not from something an algorithm already thinks I might like. (Tho I still read a ton of kindle unlimited lol.)
Oh Sis, romance will always be the genre of my heart but I will pick up a memoir real quick or a cozy mystery to shake things up. Makes me miss and appreciate romance more when I read something else. Love branching out for you. Can’t wait for the content ♥️
I’m excited for this new chapter 🎉
honey, i'd watch you put on make-up and read your daily itinerary. you have "it" and i find your channel soothing. RAMBLE ON!!
So excited for you to be excited about reading again! I can’t wait to see what you read!
Ooohha new channel and a podcast ❤ immediately described to the first, looking forward to all that is to come
One of my goals for 2024 is also to explore books outside of the romance genre. I picked up three random thrillers this month & surprisingly had so much fun with them!! I hope you have the same success bestie :)
I feel the exact same. Love this Chandler 🎉
I literally just started watching you (this is my second video by you LOL), but I'm so happy to hear you're branching out to other genres! As for historical fiction, I read this beyond amazing book called "Looking for Jane" by Heather Marshall. Trigger warning though: it talks about hard topics like miscarriages and abortions, but if you can handle reading those topics, I highly recommend! Another historical fiction I recommend reading is "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
DID I HEAR PODCAST!? Can’t wait for that, I love to just turn on your vlogs and longer videos when I’m doing things around the house.
Yay for the podcast!!! 🎉🤩
Excited to hear you will still have some lifestyle content on your vlog channel! I've loved your lifestyle vlogs!
the prettiest girl with the prettiest heart
I’m so excited to see you explore new genres! Speculative fiction is my favorite genre to read and I’m hoping to see more on your channel.
Excited for this new era! I love your romance videos but I don’t read as much romance so excited to see you branch out. Also I used to love the taste test and creative tbr videos
All the best for your reading year ❤❤
I know exactly what you mean. Ive pigeon-holed myself to reading exclusively romance/smutty books but lately nothing feels original or unique. I’ve definitely hit a book rut and will be tuning in to see how you diversify your reading to rediscover your love for books. I will say the last romance book that had me hooked was “does it hurt” by hd Carlton. I’ve also decided to re-read my favorite dystopian, ya, fantasy novels that got me into reading to rediscover why I started in the first place.
I felt so much of this and I'm only recently a new booktuber. I went through a big reading slump and I feel so lost with my reading. I'm planning to read a lot of new genres this year and branch out even further. It's actually what propelled me to start my channel cause I thought of cool content ideas. It'll be fun to see what you do!!
I am really excited for this change! I think this is a very thoughtful adjustment to your channel, and while I always love a good romance book recommendation, I am excited to see more from other genres. My TBR comes a lot from you and other booktube creators, and last year I read a lot of romance and I'm also getting a little bored of it. I am so ready for your new recs!
I have watched you for years and I don't read any romance. I still love watching your videos so I hope you find things that make you happy!! Best of luck for 2024.
This sounds exactly like me. What I decided to do was slow my reading wayyyy down. No more audiobooks, only physical or Kindle. Reading fewer books and sitting with the stories longer. Hard to do if you're a content creator, though.
Perfect name for a vampy podcast! 😍
I'm excited for new things, also, pain in the neck is a great name! 😂
The thing about romance is that we all know how the story will end. There aren’t surprises and while I enjoy the ride I defo need something else in between 2 romance books. Especially if the books are too smut heavy. I try to avoid those because I can get sick of it 😂
I won’t lie, I’ve always loved your content but when you started getting into only romance I pulled away because I’m just not much of a romance reader. I still watch but I can’t wait to see you expand genres!
Excited to see you branch out into other genres!
I miss "choose your adventure" and "taste tests" videos
Hi, Chandler. Even though I haven't been a content creater for as long as you have, I can definitely relate to the feelings and thoughts you shared in this post. Specifically, I have exactly the same thoughts on historical fiction. I never pick up books from that genre, because in my head I have created this predjudice that I will hate them for reasons that I come up to convince myself will justify my decision to not pick them up... How messed up is that?! This year I'll make a conscious effort to pick up books from that genre to give them a fair chance and see if I'm deluding myself into hating a genre for no valid reason 🤦♀. Also, reading only romance really does make it hard to find really outstanding romances to genuinely fall in love with, because they all start to blend together. I'm very much looking forward to all the content you'll come out with in 2024 on all 3 channels and will be watching how you'll hopefully fall back in love with reading and creating the content you love to create 💜
I would also love to see you read literary fiction and know if you enjoy it!
I, for one, would love to see more reviews of books that aren't popular. Everyone is reviewing the same things. I want to discover new things.
I totally understand contemporary romance burnout. I've had to step away from it and I've been reading more random genres. So many of the romances just blend together at this point. I've been walking through the library and picking one book from each aisle. I've had some real stinkers, but also have found some really cute books.
the last 6 months of the last year i had this realisation that romance was getting boring to me and i'm not in the mood for it anymore. so i decided to change it all up and started trading books from different genres and i do not regret it!
i fel in love with literary fiction and classics. i found out that thrillers and horror are not for me since i find one predictable and the other not scary.
all in all it was my awakening and revived my love for reading. i still pick up romance but it's not all what i read . and i can't wait for my finals to be over so i can read more ❤
also smt I noticed is the more genres I read the more refined my taste gets? like I got into reading by reading romance and that was all I used to read (some romantasy here and there tho). so the more I read the more I see the shortcomings of romance books. writing and characters and dynamics wise. wich made me look at what I used to read from a different perspective. and feel existed for what else is out there.
Can’t wait for the vampire podcast 😍
I have to switch up my genres all the time. My natural inclination is for thrillers and romances, but I love branching out. Some of my favorite books have been in other genres!
Chandler could review a textbook and I’d still be entertained
I think you should definitely mood read and branch out again. I see all these new books coming out and I do want to read them but right now I’m having fun reading old nostalgic series like Hunger Games, Divergent, etc., and it’s been SO fun.
I suggest Beatriz Williams for historical fiction! She usually adds a blend of mystery and romance and I don’t think she leans into trauma p*rn like soooo many hist fic authors do, especially to women main characters. If it means anything, I DNF’d Lessons in Chemistry 😅
I LOVED the choose your own adventure stuff but I’m sure that was a bitch to make
2024 is going to be the year of Chan, I feel it
i miss taste tests. i hope you bring those back!
It could also be burnout? I read 125 last year and there was one point where I was like I need a break? Or it could be the genre? Maybe explore mystery/thriller?
Excited to see you branch out. I read everything except maybe literary fiction and I love variety.
Don't call your interests stupid or yourself a stupid girl because you wanna shift on your reading genres, please. You're a human first and a content creator second, you don't even have to share all of this with us but thank you for doing so! Read at your heart's desire, we'll be here ✌
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Larry Reads made a good video about romantisizing reading again if you're looking for ideas.
I need a horror vlog at some point, if you start mixing it up more 👻
Yes!! Horror and romance are my main genres! I’d love to see a horror vlog from her.
Reading isn't my job, but I did study Literature at university, and I had such a reading burnout after that. I don't think I read more than 6 new-to-me books in the 2 or 3 years after uni. So I can sort of understand how reading for work can make you lose the joy reading used to bring. Especially when you've pigeonholed yourself into one genre, and if you feel like you need to make certain videos. Mood reading really saved me, and also going to bookstores and just buying whatever, to explore new authors and genres. Not hyped books either, just anything that caught my eye for whatever reason. I hope you won't take your reading goal too seriously though. If you start exploring new genres and new authors, there's a big chance your reading speed won't be the same as it is with what you're used to. Especially considering you used to read mostly romance, which is trope-heavy and the books generally quite short. So there is a realistic chance you might not read as much or as fast as you're used to over the last few years. Hopefully you'll rekindle your love for reading this year, I'm rooting for you ☺️
You know, I think if you feel excited to read a book it's worth starting-- even if you think you're just excited because of the buzz around it-- so I'd say maybe take popular books from the DNFing angle instead? Like have a policy that if you start a popular book and 20 pages in you're no longer excited about it, it's an automatic DNF.
If I’m going to be completely honest, I started watching this channel because I really enjoyed your energy and personality, but stopped watching for the most part when it being ONLY romance. I don’t read a lot of romance so it got super repetitive and boring to me. I would see one of your videos in my feed and see the title and pass it by. And it makes me so sad cuz I really do enjoy watching you!! All that is to say, I would be thrilled if you went back to challenging yourself to explore other genres again!
I’m not sure you can enjoy reading when it’s your job.
i like to think ppl can enjoy their careers
Excited to see you branch out from romance! 🥹