For a cute witchy very little spice romance: the very secret society of irregular witches. Good palate cleanser! To ease your way closer into horror, two darker thrillers I would recommend are The Chain by Adrian McKnity or The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison.
I got back into reading in 2022 and this year is finally the year that I'm learning to DNF books that just aren't working for me, it's so hard but will help me spend my time enjoying books I like more!
Grady Hendrix has amazing horror books that feels like hilarious 80s slasher movie vibes! How to sell a haunted house has been my favorite by him, and I want to read his ikea catalog looking one Horrorstor next!
I got out of my reading slump last year, I mainly do audio books while working. I’ve found historical fiction recently and absolutely love them. I’ve set a goal of 75 books this year.
I haven't actually broken my reading slump, but a series that broke *through* my reading slump and I actually managed to finish in short order (rather than dragging out over months or even years) were Cherie Priest's Booking Agent series of books, Grave Reservations and Flight Risk. Essentially cozy paranormal mysteries, they were quick enough reads that touched on my previous interests (back in the day I burned through the Dresden Files, The Greywalker series and even some of the Anita Blake series of books) without feeling like a retread that I really enjoyed them. Frankly, I wish there was a whole series of them already rather than just two books. While I wait for the prospect of Cherie releasing another one, I'm finding it hard to discover any other books that chip through the reading apathy I've developed over the past decade or so. It took me three years to get through one of the last books I read, and another anthology I was reading has taken me nearly that long to press through, in spite of how good and interesting the writing is. As a former writer and pretty extensive reader, still living in a house positively overflowing with books, it feels like I've lost a limb with my passion for reading having dimmed to barely a smoking smolder.
~I’’ve recently have gotten out of my reading slump & dove head first in virtual book clubs with fable too 😇 to keep me accountable & it’s helped keep me on my reading goals!
I’m loving the bookish content! Not DNFing books is so hard for me too. I always find myself just wanting to know what happens. I feel you on DNFing the beloved books though. I can’t get past the first 22% of Manacled.
I feel this soo much, but I also know what caused this. I'm just so incredibly busy these days; I work 4 days a week, go to school 1 day a week, during the weekends I'm either working on getting my car back on the streets again or visiting family and after work I'm just too tired to focus on reading. I'm also trying to set up a small business and on top of that I want to play guitar. I just have too much to do these days😅 When I was a kid, I went to school and had nothing else that needed to be done. I could spend the rest of the day reading
I’ve been in a reading slump for my whole life 😂 seriously though, I’ve never been much of a reader, but I want to be! I think reading things you enjoy really is a great tip, because whenever I have gotten into a book it’s been a light romance that I just casually picked up! I read Everything Everything a few years ago, and I’ve recently been inspired by Meet Me at the Lake. I’m so excited to join your book club! Hopefully being part of the community will help me get more into reading! 🤗
Love Bites An Argeneau Novel by Lynsay Sands is awesome. I've read most of this series and its under the romance genre. It does have a slight twist of scifi but isn't the main focus, just more of a backstory. A few years back I found this book and read almost a quarter of it on the floor of the bookstore before buying it. This is one book that that pulled me out of a reading slump. I will say that my wife listened to the audiobook a few years back and said it wasnt great, then she read the physical copy and said it qas much better. Another book is Stephen Kings Firestarter. After all of these these though i have been more or less in a reading slump since. Hopefully this gives you more reading options to choose from.
I love your bookish content. I was in a reading slump that I just got out of. What got me out of it was the book Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokski came off of my Libby hold. I am about 60% through. I find myself fully invested in the book. It made me realize my reading had gotten too safe. There is a place for light, cozy books. But I need dark, intense books too
So happy you're back to the bookish world! I'm SO excited for book club ahhhhh!! Our reading journeys are pretty similar -- I was a voracious reader when I was younger, then I just fell out of it and was in a major slump for YEARS -- would read a singular book here or there but very few and far between. I started getting the itch to read again in 2022, the book that really pulled me out of my slump was My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell -- it was very very good, dual timeline book about a woman who was groomed by one of her high school teachers, but that she had always viewed as an affair, and her reckoning with herself about it all, with the timelines split between her teen and adult self.
I totally enjoy a physical book. Recently finished "roses " by Leila Meacham. So good !! On " the house" by Danielle Steel. Going good so far. Nice video!!! I enjoy reading! ❤❤❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☠️☠️💀👾👾💞💞💞💞💝💝💖💕💖💕💞💞💞💞💞😻😻😻😺😺💜💜💜💜⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌹🌱
