HUGE May Mid-Month Reading Wrap Up - Yay Anxiety... 

Listening to you talk about Honey Witch makes me want a video of cozy books (sci-fi, fantasy, romance) with sensory amazingness!❤

Between this and your end of month wrap up, I've added 5 more books to my tbr 😂 Your excitement over those books is contagious 😊

I literally just finished reading a horror/thriller written in 3rd person present tense, and the author stated that they chose that specifically so that there would be a sense of uncertainty/feeling that anyone could die. Which worked really well, but for a cozy fantasy... I agree that sounds like a mismatch 😅

A Letter to the Luminous Deep sounds amazing

I stim a lot especially when I'm anxious- primarily by cuddling and petting my special stuffed animal.

So sorry that May has been rough so far, I hope you feel better soon!! My way of coping with anxiety is watching booktube (mostly livestreams or reading sprints), so thanks for providing that safe haven for me so often 🥰 Anyway, love to see someone gushing about Heartless Hunter, it was SO GOOD! And that ending wrecked me, I love a YA that takes such bold risks! Also, consider me sold on Masquerade, that sounds super intriguing 🤩

I hope the anxiety gets better soon. Mental health hasn't been healthing for me either lately and i'm quite the opposite of you as i find it hard to read during those periods. I'm really interested in A Letter to the Luminous Deep

I finished a letter to the luminous deep today. I love and i can't wait to see how it continues

Yessss, I'm so glad to see such a positive review for A Letter to the Luminous Deep from you because it's one of my most anticipated books of this year. I have had a gut feeling I'd love it, so I preordered the hardcover from the UK. But you never know, sometimes gut feelings are wrong, lol. I'm so excited to get to it now!

That's the first review of Letters to the Luminous Deep that's actually told me what it's about and that it's epistolary. I will have to pick that up. I rewatch Leverage when I'm anxious. Or Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I do not know how many times I've seen the entirety of these shows.

When I feel anxious, I have trouble concentrating to read. I wish I had your coping mechanism instead! I tend to rewatch things that I have seen before-be that YT, or documentaries, or Gilmore Girls! I also try and organize things to gain control over the chaos. That last bit often doesn't work, but I do it anyway!!

Masquerade has been on my TBR for a long time bc I think the release date got pushed back before. So I'm anxious to read it.

When I am anxious I make lists. Sometimes even, lists of lists that I need to make. So reading kind of ends at that point. 😂

I cannot wait until Clare’s book is released. I preordered it and have been impatiently waiting for June 😂😂

oh! heartless hunter is on kindle unlimited - definitely going to check that one out.

Honey witch has been on my radar 👀🫠

I wish I could read when I was anxious. What I do is make lists 😅 and play mindless phone games

I'm thinking about DNFing The Honey Witch too, which is disappointing because I thought I would love this. My main problem with the book, I'm not enjoying the writing and am forcing myself to continue. I'm not a fan of Marigold, the pacing is a bit wonky, and the sensory issue does bother me too. But I find the book lacking in world-building and I need solid world-building. The characters, the setting, the magic, etc, it all just feels surface level and lacking.

Have you read Dread Nation by Justina Ireland? I think you’d like it! It’s a historical fantasy where the zombie apocalypse happens during the Civil War.

I've had crippling chronic anxiety since I was a kid. My go-tos are: Exercise (even just 10 minutes of elevated heart rate does wonders) Rituals - whatever this means to you. Morning coffee and journal, bath with candles and a book, daily walk, etc CBD + 1-2 mg THC (doesn't make you high) Consume light-hearted media.

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So bummed about the honey witch to hear about it

I'm a stress eater. I wish I wasn't

I also read to cope with anxiety, but I guess I 'only' read 12 books this month (I guess almost as much as last month)

Here's what I read The green mile by Stephen king It happened one summer by tessa bailey Interview with the vampire by Anne rice book 1 in the vampire chronicles How to end a love story by yulin kaung

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I eat! Oh, wait, you probably wanted to know healthy techniques for battling anxiety. Yeah, um, sorry, I got nothing.

I wish my anxiety made me read! I doomscroll tik tok and it DOES NOT HELP