There haven’t been any posts because this week I’ve
finally started clawing my way out of a reading slump that’s lasted six months.
Last weekend I was at the library with a group of friends-yes, we are the
people who hang out at the library for fun-and couldn’t find anything. One of
them said, “I never thought I’d see the day where you couldn’t find anything at
a library.”
As mentioned in the previous post the last semester
was pretty packed, reading wasn’t a priority and became even more stressful.
Reading was beginning to feel like another assignment, so it had to be put
away. A friend did let me borrow a stack of Garfield comics and that helped in
a sense that there is no way to read a comic and feel like it had to be done at
a certain deadline. They made reading fun for a little while, and for that I’m
thankful. But, for some reason, reading novels just wasn’t cutting it.
A couple days after the library get-together,
however, I finally picked up This
Adventure Ends by Emma Mills and I’m flying through it. Reading this book
has me excited to read the other contemporary romances on my shelves. It’s also
getting me into writing again because one of the topics mentioned is
fanfiction, and I’ve been a fic reader and writer for years. Fanfiction helps
get me into a headspace for writing in general; I’m getting an old, abandoned
story out and rewriting it. this is also having me write original stuff,
nothing worth showing at the moment, but at least a little is getting done. Just random sentences here and there, a notebook dedicated to a list of titles that could be used for potential books and poems. The next post will be a book review and touch on the subjects of fandom and fanfiction. This will most likely be posted next Saturday. Maybe there will be other post between now and then.
