I have been a book lover since childhood (mostly romances, YA, Distopian, and fantasy/romanctasy) I majored in English in college to become an English teacher and long story short, through taking 21 hours a semester of literature classes, escaping and recovering from an @bů$|v€ relationship, becoming physically disabled after a paralysis scare, recovering and escaping from an @bů$|v€ friendship, reading totally fell off my radar.
I want to read again, but I have no idea where to start. I feel like in the time since I stopped reading, I have totally lost myself. My brain became a pretty nasty scrambled mix of ocd, c-ptsd, anxiety, and depression with a lovely undertone of autism I finally found the label for. I don’t know who I am anymore, or what I enjoy. I know what I used to like before my brain became this metaphorical omelet, and I know everything I had to study to earn my degree. But I don’t know what will light my fire again. I miss the love that comes from staying up until 3 am because you literally just can’t put a book down. I crave that so badly. I’m also in therapy, and a big psychology lover/nerd, so I have no underestimation for the power books can have in change, growth, and healing. But I don’t want to just pick up any random popular self help book like they’d all understand the complexities of what I’ve gone through.
I don’t know what to read, and while I know this probably sounds more like life advice requests and not book requests, I argue true literature nerds know it’s all the same.
Can you help me read again either for enjoyment or maybe to fix my life lol?
Things I liked pre college:
(Don’t judge, I can admit not all of this is “quality work”)
– fablehaven
– Percy Jackson
– The entire SJM universe
– Emily Henry books had a brief grip on me I believe(?)
-mistborn book one
– ASOIAF
-zodiac academy
Things I enjoyed reading that was tossed at me during college:
-perks of being a wallflower
-The female of the species
-challenger deep
– F-451
– anything that came out of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s mouth god I love that woman
I know this is a lot, but got anything for me Reddit?
by Ladybugd-