how to get out of a reading slump 📚 tips/tricks & a reading vlog!!
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Carter me and my sister really really love to read books so so much and I love your vlogs so so much you are my inspiration and I wish you have a beautiful day💫🤗💓
Thank you so much!
A fantasy book I loved is The Priory of the Orange Tree! It has female protagonists, multiple storylines, magic lore, and worldbuilding and it was amazing. Fair warning, its quite long, but i felt like it was easy to pick up and put down without totally forgetting the plot, so you can take your time!
Ou I've heard great things! I'll add to my TBR🤭
I read more physical books/e books in the winter, then more audiobooks in the summer that way I can go on walks or do other fun summer things while listening to a book!
i just got the kindle paperwhite and i feel like i am finally out of my reading slump! i started multiple books in 2023 but have not been able to finish them. Truly my kindle has helped me finish 1 book already! So i am HERE for the reading content!
yay so happy for you!!!
I quite literally just finished rereading The Infernal Devices and The Mortal Instruments series (read them initial a decade ago and have been reading each book as it releases ever since) & they will always be my favorites, my reread really solidified my love for them. I hope you enjoy them!!!
EEEP I'm so excited to read them!
i really like lauren sydni's reading videos, she films like realistic reading vlogs with her full time job and it's just nice and refreshing. books that got me out of a slump are the eden series, they have mystery and romance and it's such a nice refresher. plus they are on KU and so short and easy
Ou thank you!! I'm always looking for new booktube channel suggestions. Running to check her out!!
I gave myself a challenge this year: buy every 3rd book I read. It’s been very helpful and helps me be more cognizant of how I’m spending money on my low income!! As always, love your videos, you’re definitely inspiring me to read more.
Keep it up, girlie 💖
Oh that's a neat way of doing it! Love that for you!
so excited to watch this! same here, I feel like I'm in a book slump this year as well
I love sitting outside in the summer reading…that way I’m getting fresh air but also enjoying a good book. Libby app has been great to try different authors and genres
Nothing beats summer reading! We have 0 privacy in our backyard so I don't do it as much as I'd like to🥲
I love sitting in the park under a tree when the sun is out kinda like a picnic with yourself and do nothing but read! Do you have any thriller book recs that you recently read? I have never read a thriller (just non-fiction and the Lucy Score series) :( loved the vlog❤
I have tons of thriller recs on my IG highlights (which are sorted by year)!
@@CarterSullivan perfect! Thanks 🤍
I absolutely love Michelle Sagara's Chronicles of Elantra (a fictitious city, not the car). I've yet to get past the 10th book and I don't know if you've read them yet, but it's just about my favorite fantasy series. The books are on the longer side (still not ridiculous, though), but I zoom right through them.
Not me wanting to read that because I own an Elantra car hahaha
I'm not going to lie, I was very tempted to buy an Elantra purely because of the book series😂
love this video Carter! I just recently started reading for pleasure again back in April and the book series that truly had me in a chokehold was the ACOTAR series. if I did read a book for fun, it used to take me at least a month to get through it, but I finished two books in that series in one week- I literally couldn’t put them down. fantasy, adventure, love, smut- I ate them up!!! the first book is definitely slow but I think it builds the necessary foundation for the others. I hope you’ll give it another chance, you won’t regret it! 🤍
I honestly love that for you!!! While I didn't love the ACOTAR series, I can totally see why people love them! And I think they are a great series, but I'm just not into that type of Fantasy really if that makes sense!! I've tried to finish the third book like three times now😂😅
@@CarterSullivan totally understandable! I’m glad to hear you still gave them a chance :’)
idky when you said that book felt like a waste of you day I immediately thought of the worst book I read because the ending pissed me off so muchh!! the book is called The Face on the Milk Carton and it's from the early 90s but omg when I got to the end of the book and how it ended I was furious 😂 I donated it after reading I was so mad I didn't want to look at it hahaha
waittttttt I just learned it's a series?!?!? Now im trying to decide if I should read the next book and maybe things will change and I won't hate it so much 😂
Sunday is a great day for reading
It sure is!!!
The Clockwork series by Cassandra Clare is amazing
I was talking to my mom the other day and she's a big reader but primarily thrifts books. I was telling her I was selling the books I didn't like or knew I wouldn't read again on Facebook Marketplace and she had no idea how much new books cost here in Canada. 😂 I told her how much I sell for on Marketplace and she was like, that's a good price. Books aren't that much more expensive than that, and I was like, books are SO much more expensive! But it's because she hasn't bought a book new in a while. 🤪
Stella is so cute. She reminded me there at the end of an ebook benefit I don't hear discussed much - with ebooks, I don't have to worry about my cat gnawing on the corners of the pages. I tried to explain to her that we shouldn't eat books and ESPECIALLY not library books, but it never got through. 🤪
That is true!! I've never had a cat so I've never even thought of that!
I get into a reading slump the same time period that you do. There’s so much to do outside and Zelda just came out too!
Glad to know it isn't just me! But I've been trying to spin it positively so instead of thinking "oh man I haven't been reading lately" I'm trying to turn it into "oh wow how lucky am I to have spent so much time outside in the sun lately" ☀️📖
The Infernal Devices is SO good, at it's heart, it's a romance series with fantasy.
THATS MY KINDA SERIES
Hi Carter good morning happy Wednesday morning and I hope you having amazing day today and I loved your vlogs and you are amazing Supporter and I'm proud of you
This video came at the perfect time 🫶🏻
YES on the Kindle Unlimited thrillers/romances being very similar in plot/style/etc. That's part of the reason I started going hard at my TBR list because I wasn't getting much from KU. I'm weirdly also getting into fantasy right now. I say weird because it wasn't a genre I paid much attention to before I read Harry Potter. (I'll admit I still think KU was worth it if only because it has all the Harry Potter books! That + the pandemic pushed me to finally read the series.) Anyway, I just read a fantasy called Uprooted by Naomi Novak that I highly recommend. I took a quick look through my reads. Also recommend: Lillith's Brood trilogy by Octavia Butler, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, and the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie. (That last one had a bit of a slow start for me. I didn't think I was going to be able to relate to the characters, but I was so, so wrong.)
Oh I just mean thrillers/romance in general hoenstly not even just on KU- it's all so repetitive 😅 Ou gonna look into those ones, thanks for sharing!
@@CarterSullivan Fair enough! I guess I find KU books particularly repetitive in the thriller and romance genres, BUT I also went through a period of reading all of an author's books available on KU back to back, and obvs the same author will have the same kind of voice throughout their books. But I even find that with bigger authors NOT on KU like James Patterson and Dean Koontz, so it's not specific to KU. I just don't love reading a lot of fluffy fiction, the kind of book whose plot I won't even remember the specific details of in a couple weeks, y'know? But I agree with all your tips and especially that you should start with a lighter book when you're just starting to come out of a slump. Great video, as always!
do you have a goodreads or storygraph account that you share? I like seeing folks' reviews/ratings/or what their reading/read when I'm trying to find a book to read.
also, I think it definitely helps to vary up the genres of the books you read now and then! I'm currently taking a little break from romance. For fantasy I recommend Children of Blood and Bone, magical realism, I remember loving The Night Circus. I'm currently reading A Man Called Ove, which is fiction, not sure what other sub genres it may contain, but it reminds me of the old man in the movie Up lol. plus there's a. netflix movie that came out in January starring Tom Hanks, called A Man Called Otto so I moved it up my tbr lol.
also, who were the youtubers that you mentioned in the video at the 5:30 mark?
Yep I use storygraph! My username is 'cartersullivan'
If you haven’t read the Crave series by Tracy Wolff I highly recommend! There are 6 books in the series. The first one is my least fav so if you read the first one and think it’s just ok I would give the second book a chance. 😊
OU I see that all the time at the thrift store!! I may pick it up next time!
If you like/are looking into more fantasy, I recommend the TH-cam channel Katie is reading, she is a big fantasy girl and I love her content! She just graduated undergrad and is going into a masters program, and she is constantly recommending books that I end up absolutely loving. Also, if you have a good reads, id love to be friends, I love seeing what people are reading!!
I love, Katie!!!!
Hey Carter, what advice do you have of a friendship breakup? :(
One bad book will put me in a slump for so long. It's so hard for me to DNF something so I just put it off and read nothing!
VERY EXCITED
YAY
If I’m in a slump I reread a middle grade favorite ( the babysitters club )
Yes great tip! I gave that tip in my video- to re-read an old favourite!
What do you think about the comic book format they are in now? I kinda dislike it. I am a HUGE fan of BSC!!!!!!
@@libbylou9957 it’s different but I just adore this series . I’ve read one but I just got two in that format .
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Have your tried YA series Crave by Tracey Wolff ?
I'm not big into vampires😅
Have you read tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow? I think that’s the title has a lot of tomorrow’s lol.
I have it downloaded on my Kindle! Just need to be in the right mood for it- who knows when that will be as a mood reader😂
@@CarterSullivan lol I am the same way it took me like I think a month of just sitting on my shelf… But I truly recommend it I’m in the middle of reading it right now
❤ haven't watched yet though 😅