Reader Problems Tag

I saw this on someone's channel on YouTube (forgot already whose channel it was), and I thought I would give it a try! 

01 - You have 2000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next? I have two methods. The first being to just go look at my bookshelves and see what jumps out at me. The second is a mason jar of prompts and I chose a book from there. I will eventually put the prompts back in, or add new ones to the jar, but for now I'm just trying to complete a challenge so we leave them out of the jar. 

02 - You're halfway through a book and just not loving it. Do you quit it or push through? It's already going to take me something like forty years to finish the books I own, not counting the new ones coming out in the future that I may like and want to read, so if I'm just not into a book, I will ditch it in favor of trying something else.

03 - The end of the year is coming, and you're so close but so far away from your Goodreads goal. Do you try to catch up? No. That's a deal I made with myself a long time ago. If I make it, cool. If I don't make it, also cool. I set the same goal every year and don't worry about whether I met it or not. One year I hit 84. The next, it was only 41. Last year was 76. My goal? 50. 

04 - The covers of a series you love do not match. How do you cope? Pretty much as long as the books are the same dimensions, I'm not all that concerned about the cover art. It is what it is. I'll just be happy that the book has a cover. 

05 - Everyone and their mother loves a book you really don't like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings? I have a few friends with tastes similar to mine that I talk with over the books we've read. However, I also have a rather broad taste in books with the only ones I don't like being hard sci-fi, westerns, and erotica. So, unless I just don't jive with the writing itself there's not much I won't be able to talk to people about. 

06 - You're reading a book and you're about to start crying in public. How do you deal? I just cry. It takes a lot for anything to make me cry period, so when it does happen I roll with it. I don't see any shame in crying in public if something's moved you that much. 

07 - A sequel from a book you love just came out but you forgot the plot of the first. Do you reread the first, skip the sequel, try to find a synopsis on Goodreads or cry in frustration? Usually I'll look at the Goodreads synopsis and see what my own review was. That's generally enough to actually spark memory of what the book was about before I head into the second one. Sometimes I just say fuck it and read the second with no clue. A lot of the time the author puts enough past sequences in that I can pick up what happened previously.

08 - You do not want ANYONE borrowing your books. How do you politely tell people no? I just politely say "No." I don't allow many people to borrow my books because I hate when they don't return. Even my own mother borrowed one and never gave it back! If anyone asks, I just tell them "I'm sorry, but I don't lend my books out." 

09 - You picked up and put down five books over the last week. How do you get over your reading slump? I take a break for a week or two (or like, five) and let my mind focus on other things before starting a new book. Sometimes the books on my shelves just aren't interesting because of my mental state, the season, or any number of reasons. I just let it alone. Sometimes I draw, I do crafting projects, I write. Just other things to let my reading mind just reset itself. 

10 - There are so many new books coming out that you are dying to read. How many do you buy? I rarely actually very rarely purchase new books unless they are something I'm actually interested in. I tend to wait until books drop in price or if my interest in it rises. There are very very few that I buy when they come out. In fact, I think in my entire reading life I've only ever had one pre-order. 

11 - After you bought the new books you can't wait to get to...How long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them? Again, it depends on interest level. The more interested I am in the book, the faster I get to it. There are some that I was stupidly excited for that I bought last year, the year before that, that are still sitting on my bookshelf unread. It is the nature of the beast I suppose. It's the way I am. Something else shiny and new captured my attention.