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Reading Slump

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April has been a crazy month so far in terms of what’s been going on in my personal life and unfortunately this has ended up with me being in a bit of a reading slump. I’ve moved house and had to go on a couple last minute trips out of town for sorry business and it’s really been messing with my reading mojo. However, I’ve been trying to get back into the reading spirit by ducking in to any book stores I come across in my travels and this one in Kempsey NSW is one of my favourites that I wanted to share! A true hole in the wall bookstore with books seemingly bursting from the seams. I always feel better when I’m surrounded by books and I need to remind myself how much I actually love reading and the escapism it gives me from my everyday life! Do you have a favourite bookstore??

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Slumpy 😭

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There’s always one point or another in the year where I find myself falling into a reading slump and unfortunately it’s now that time. It’s been going on since the start of the month but I just didn’t want to acknowledge it! There’s a plethora of books that I want to read but I just don’t have the mental capacity at the moment to pick anything up. So I’m just going to give myself a break this month from posting any reviews and just try and get some of the other usual bookish content out so I might only post 2-3 times a week instead of the usual 5. If I do end up reading anything I will for sure post a review on my thoughts but I’m not going to force myself to. Hopefully I get back on track and start getting back into a reading mood again soon!

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Goodreads Reading Challenge Update

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Since we are in June (wtf) I figured it was a good time to check in and see how I’m going with my reading challenge and stats for the first half of the year. At this stage I have only completed 29 books and Goodreads says I am 14 books behind schedule if I want to complete the challenge whereas last year at this time I had already completed 67. I am honestly not that worried about completing the reading challenge, even though in the 4 years I’ve been on Goodreads it would be a first. I am just trying to get out of this reading slump I’ve been in for the majority of 2021. I think I am on the tail end though and I am getting more and more in the mood to read so fingers crossed for that! So far this year I have completed 9747 pages as opposed to last year where I had already read 27,598! So yeah I have some catching up to do, but I have some really good books on my TBR and I am excited to get stuck in and read!

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Feeling Slumpish!

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I just haven’t been in the reading mood at all for the last few weeks. I’ve been struggling to finish the various books I am in the middle of at the moment and I have no desire to pick anything else up. Its nearing the end of the month and I have only completed four books and all of them were under 300 pages and I am also 2 books behind on my Goodreads goal as well which I don’t think has ever happened to me before. There are soooo many great books I have on my TBR currently but the drive to actually pick them up and read them isn’t there. So what I have decided to do is just give myself a few days where I don’t even think about books, reading or blog posts, relax and let the groove come back in slowly. I know this slump isn’t going to last forever, I have these stages where I will fluctuate in and out of my reading habits and I guess I am happy it’s happening now at the start of the year as opposed to the end! So I don’t think there is going to be any posts for a few days, which makes me kind of anxious as I’ve never missed a day since I started this blog, but I am only human and I just have to let these things go. Hopefully you all are having a better reading month than me!

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Reading Update

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True to my predictions for this November I am waaaayyyy behind my usual amount of books read. Usually at this time of the month I would be at around 9-11 books read but I have only managed to complete 6 right now. I have just been in a little bit of a reading slump/funk and I haven’t been in the mood to pick up anything. I am about 100 pages into Legendborn by Tracy Deonn right now and enjoying that, hopefully I will have that completed by the end of the week which will bring my tally up to seven. I can’t really foresee myself finishing anything else this month but I am still hopeful and going to try and keep my thoughts positive because there are just so many great books I really want to read!