How do you choose what to read next?
Seriously. Please tell me, because I have struggled with this since the day I was born and I flipped through my book basket asking today’s most excruciating question: Brown-Bear, Brown-Bear or If You Give a Mouse a Cookie?
Today the question is the same in various different ways. Red Queen or Going Rogue? Rose Under Fire or Divergent? Through the Looking Glass or Romeo Blue? (These are just a few of the books on my TBR that is fixing to topple right over onto my head, thank you very much. HELP ME!)
But the strange thing is, I don’t really want your help. If I asked you to tell me what to read next and you said “Rose Under Fire is a good one dear Emily,” then I would pick Red Queen. If you told me to read Divergent next (which I’m sure most of you will because yes I am a bit behind on that one) I would read Through the Looking Glass.
Nope I’m not. SORRY NOT SORRY!
I just want your CONDOLENCES, okay?! I need you to pat me on the back and give me some chocolate while I spend the ten minutes in between books scouring my bookshelf and going crazy mad. (It’s awful in that short period of time not knowing what you’re reading – not having a beautiful little friend on your nightstand waiting for you, you know?)
Which brings me to the next question: how long in between books?! Do you finish one book, close it up, declare it a 5-star read and pick up the next one almost immediately? Or do you read a book and make up your mind that there is absolutely NO book in the entire universe that can be as good as this one. So you can’t possibly choose what to read next and instead wallow in self-pity about how you have nothing to read. (Been there, done that, trust me.)
For me, it depends on my mood. Sometimes I get into a massive reading kick and have to have a book in my hands – it doesn’t matter what book, I just need to be reading SOMETHING. (Like back in the blissful summer of freedom when I read 13 or 14 books in a month. THOSE WERE THE DAYS…) but sometimes I just cannot bring myself to pick a book! Either they all look too boring to me (imagine that, IMAGINE THAT. I know, I know, and I’m sorry I feel this way sometimes, truly I am, but… but I DO!) or they… just… don’t… speak to me.
Doesn’t make sense does it. I can’t explain it either so just nod your head and pretend like you understand me.
So the point of this post is… well. This is odd, because it really HAS no point. I’m just here, somewhere in the world, on my couch droning on and on about my issues with books. And this is one of them where I just have NO ANSWER.
which is why i need your help! how do you choose what to read next? or is your predicament no better than mine? (in that case, let us mourn the time that could be spent reading while we are looking for that one special book.) to the comments we go! see you there!
There, there *pat pat* don’t worry little bookworm you’ll muddle though *pat*
I am so happy your reading Red Queen right now, It looks AMAZING but for some reason I haven’t gotten it yet??? ?? ??? ??? Though I don’t know why I haven’t, the hype promises good things.
I got Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Aime Kaufman The Leveller by Julia Durango and The Maze Runner.
I started Illuminae first because of HYPE and IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND THERE WAS SO MUCH TO LOOK AT. I ended up DNFing 🙁 I was SO disappointed!! Illuminae was actually REALLLLLY funny and the IM’s and Email’s seemed so REAL! There was a lot of swearing like on every page which I actually dont mind but was weird since it’s YA. There’s gross guy jokes which was pushing it for me but I kept reading and DNF’d when it started to get creepy with zombie things. :/ I never would have picked it up if it said that in the synopsis.
The Leveller looks MUCH more promising though. It’s about a teen hacker who gets hired by a billionaire to pull his son out of a virtual reality!!
-Brooke promises the Maze Runner will be good so I’ll probably save best for last! 😀
*long comment alert* 😛
….also I forgot to mention that I mentioned you in my Friday post 🙂 <3
*pats your shoulder consolingly* THERE THERE. IT’S NEVER GOING TO BE OKAY. But at least we all suffer with this so that should make you feel a bit better?!! 😛 (I love all the Epic Read gifs!! XD) I usually pick books based on, erm…size. I’m not even kidding!! I pick all the smallest ones first. hah. And release date. Like if I have ARCs or library books, I read them in order of which needs to be reviewed/returned. So that helps!! And I nearly always pick up a book straight after finishing. WELL. I try to review it first and THEN pick up the next book. But I literally put one down and pick up the next. 😉