Hey everyone! I've really been on a roll with taking up reading again lately after barely doing so for a few years after high school. Finding this subreddit helped me graduate from YA fantasy to wanting to get into the classics, and since Christmas last year I finished Moby Dick, Anna Karenina and Little Women (and reading a few more the year before that). Two days ago I was halfway through a book about U.S. nature conservation, just finishing an essay about yet another prairie flower species when me brain screamed at me ENOUGH. I just couldn't do it anymore, I felt burntout, bored out of my mind, and just generally sick of reading. So I did what every sensible adult would do and picked up a 5-part book series with dragons and teens that I devoured at 16 years old. I still find them really good, but now I'm noticing how fast-paced everything is (almost so much I wish it had double the amount of pages for the same amount of story, if that makes sense) and that the author often clumsily repeats words, like using "cat-like" or "appraising" as the same descriptive word 3 times on one page.
And this it made me curious: do you ever get sick of your preferred genre? If so, how often and what do you like to do or read in between, and does it impact your perception of the other books/writing styles, especially if it's a book you read before? I'm not saying reading so many slow paced classics ruined fantasy novels for me, but it all feels so hectic now lol
I'm also going on vacation soon and planning to bring a short story collection by Ray Bradbury, fingers crossed I like it and won't have to scramble looking for something else to read (another reason to take a break from the classics)
by coolestdudette