5. Frankly, sci-fi and fantasy were and still are my go to, real life is real enough as it is ya feel, please spice up my free time with magic and or AI thanks … but I read so many stupid medical journals this year that NON FICTION is for once a solid contender for most read 😂 Esp if I include the odd self-help book.
13. I’m not a fan of naming specific book titles bc they might be other peoples favs, I had a lot of DNF’d popular fiction this year. But I will talk about two that got me emotionally dissapointed because I wANTED to like them so very much for two different reasons, and didn’t. One was The Quick by Lauren Owen, it started off strong, it had a cool gothic horror vibe, a decent mystery, I enjoyed the descriptive writing, and the first major twist of the book was GREAT. And then an event happens right before halfway through and??? it abruptly lost all atmospheric tension for me??? It was so depressing, the character relos she had us invested in all of a sudden weren’t there anymore, and look, I’m all for angst, but angst without a happy ending where everyone is despairing, depressed and/or dead/insane??? For no logical plot reason??? …. wh y. A-are u okay Lauren????? I’ve never wanted to take a pair of sizzors to a book before so that I could pretend only half of it happened, but whOOP there it is. The other one was (and I feel kinda uber ashamed to admit it) Terrier by Tamora Pierce. I’ve tried to read Terrier so many times since it came out, being a Tamora fan, and I could never focus, I always put it down after a chapter thinking I would come back to it and never did. It was a whole different writing style for her and I just s t r u g g l e d. Finally tackled it this year and it was not an enjoyable experience at all, which I hate because Tamora is one of my all time favourite authors. I don’t think it was the story, it was just the writing style that threw my brain off constantly :C But that one might just be on me.
25. 100% to finish my to-read shelf. Kind got a bit dragon-hoardy this year with second hand store shopping being my go-to emotional coping mechanism 😂 Since I broke down my resistance to reading new books last year, it’s nice to have a nice new concise collection of favs. I’ll be graduated by 2020 end, so I’ll need to keep it manageable for moving back out of home again HAH