March reading recap 📚 On failing my goal, and reading fatigue…
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- I’m back with another monthly reading recap, and this time, for the first time since November, I’ve failed to reach my goal. So join me for a rambling little chat about the books I couldn’t manage to get through, and about the downsides of turning your passion into your responsibility.
Thanks as always for watching and for chatting with me in the comments - here’s hoping that April brings us all the opportunity to meet our goals, or at least brings a sense of acceptance over any goals we fail to achieve!
0:00 Intro
1:32 Book Finished
4:04 Books Abandoned
7:31 On Turning a Passion into a Job
13:14 On Reading Fatigue
17:59 April Reading Goals
Thank you for talking about this. I’m in a very similar situation-after my English MA, I’ve found it very hard to read for pleasure. I’ve found, for me, it’s easier to read non-fiction at the moment than fiction because I expect that analytical part of my brain to be on whereas with fiction, I want to turn off the “work” mind, but I just can’t. I honestly haven’t completed a book for fun since last January. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve started a million, but haven’t completed any. Just trying to give myself grace and time.
For romance, Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas! For short, compulsive reads, I would recommend This Is How You Lose the Time War (queer sci-fi romance), O Caledonia (Scotland, teenage outsider, very literary), or The Days of Abandonment (Elena Ferrante, feminist).
Hj! I'm a new viewer and really enjoy your authenticity. Since I'm studying literature I also can't really afford a reading slump 😂 but reading for pleasure hasn't been hitting as hard lately. I'd rather just listen to music right now, which is sad.
Anyway, loved the video!
I had a reading slump recently. Mostly because I’ve been plotting an historical romance and I don’t like easy romances but ones accurate to history and with heavy subjects baked in beyond “we love each other.” It takes the fun out of reading the genre even then. I tend not read romance because I am judging everything I read. In other words it’s my job so I can’t enjoy romance anymore. However I’ve gotten into sci-fi because I don’t write it so I don’t have to analyze it as much. I still do because storytelling is storytelling but I feel you.
I try to write romance in my spare time and have a dream of doing it professionally some day, and I worry about what you’re describing! Romance has always been my comfort zone for reading, I’m sad at the thought that if I pursue writing it I might lose some of that enjoyment… but I guess sometimes that’s just the price we pay to pursue a passion!
@@GlutenbergBibleit is the price we pay but in my opinion it’s worth it. Plus, fun is not something static in a human life. We find ways to get it when we need it.
This is my first vid or yours and youre so lovely to watch. March has been a hard month ( I think for all) but even a little reading goes a long way. Hope you have a great spring and even a greater April.
Maybe we can blame it on the changing season, March itself is sending us all into a slump!
Hello! As a fellow grad student this is so relatable - and in general I love all your thesis writing content, your tik tok on the shitty first draft really really helped me get out of a writing slump this summer, and I just handed in my thesis yesterday, so thank you
I absolutely needed this video. In January I started an editorial internship and have been reading non-stop for work and for pleasure. March was the first month where I felt like I really burnt myself out and found it hard to read in my spare time. The reading fatigue came with so much inner turmoil and guilt because I felt like by not wanting to read, I was somehow losing an essential part of myself, or proving I wasn’t capable of my job….all of this to say - this video and your wisdom were much appreciated. ❤
Yes that’s exactly how it feels, guilt and a sense of loss! I do find it comes and goes, though - I have these slumps, but eventually they pass and I get back to the feeling of fun and engagement with reading again. I hope you’re enjoying your internship and are able to be patient with yourself while you’re doing all this professional reading!!
The Well of Loneliness was first published in 1928. I have a copy of the book from that year by Jonathan Cape publishing, the first edition, second impression, with original dust jacket, before the book was banned. I found it cheap in a second hand book store. Judging by the price sticker on it, I don't think they quite knew what they were selling!
Oh wow, that’s so cool! I recently picked mine up second hand, it’s also Jonathon Cape - if I’m reading it right, mines a seventh impression from 1929 - our copies are like cousins!
More unhinged women genre than romance per se and maybe too close to home with your work reading, A Certain Hunger!
Oo that’s been sitting in my shelf for months now and I haven’t gotten around to starting it yet!