I feel this. So many times I’ve read and loved a book, but had no one to talk to about it.

I talk about little known books on r/suggestmeabook all the time.

There’s lots of book subreddits you can join and tell people about a little known book or author and possibly get someone else to check them out.

bless the day when i found out, that there is a huge “Murderbot” and also “The Locked Tomb” community on Tumblr 🙌

Reading non-fiction about niche topics or (kind of) niche books (at least for the current generation) isn’t easy, but that’s book biz. Show must go on. ✊🏻

Tell me about it… I went from rereading ASOIAF 100 times a year to finally branching out and there is no one to discuss with. Very frustrating.

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Read the Dandelion Dynasty guys!!!

I dont care, really. A lot of times Goodreads are just not fair at all. I read a book „Saha“ by Cho Nam-Joo this year, its good, but it barely hits 2.7 stars there. Or Jonathan Carroll, my favourite author of all time. And Goodreads cant event recommend me any book similar to his… But I think, u just read and enjoy it. Create a journal, write some thoughts down, create ur owns little worlds. Reading is ur personal experience created just for u.

I totally relate to that but only for certain books. That why I joined a bookclub, but sadly the book club became unreliable and also scheduling conflict issues until we just ended it (well the host) altogether. I haven’t had great luck with online bookclubs it always felt empty. I like meeting in person having that community with others etc.

But otherwise I like reading alone it’s my space to relax and enjoy it or not lol.

what i do is listen to audiobooks with my husband, we dont watch tv or movies unless they are our favorites, a rewatch, or something new that was in our wheel house. We spend a lot of our time together and instead of sitting and watching pointless tv or something we read books together. This gives us books to discuss a larger variety of books the both of us likes and it gets us trying new things, or well old things, we like classics. It’s like listening to a story around a campfire.

we got started doing this because i work remote and was sitting in our spare room turned office with him while he played video games listening to my horror books last october. He didnt understand most of Frankenstein as he was too unfocused but once we started Jurassic park and i started picking more books he might like, and we went from there. It got me further away from romance books and really back into reading, i went from like 11 books a year to 36 from October to the end of the year last year, to over 72 books so far this year. Not all were books together but most were. I hadnt been reading as much and his new found love of books and us discussing them resparked my love of reading.

He didnt like reading bc he’s dyslexic and it takes him along time to read a physical book. Audiobooks really made him love reading more.

try joining someone in listening to a audiobook you might like instead of movie night or game night. My husband calls it story time, its adorable.

I like the loneliness it’s just me my book and the world outside my bedroom window sometimes I even get birds that I can watch

Reading never feels lonely to me, i never feel lonely reading, in fact, its the time im in the book world and dont feel the real life problems for some minutes or hours.

I just think that this really sucks about reading books.

Completly disagree, this is what makes books great. Its a thing the even if you are in a group you are doing it alone and teaching you how to be alone and still feeling pleasure. Basicly solitude

I read December Park recently, and wanted to discuss it with someone, and realized it far too late and not a relevant enough of a book to host a discussion of it. So yeah kinda. Granted atleast I can give an answer when someone ask for recommendations or what books I didn’t like.

I only read a book when I am lonely

When I was a teen, I would read a lot of books in a month! But now as I am older, I find it hard to find time for it. It’s all work now. But I do read a little every day or mostly on weekends. I suggest you stop reading for a few days. Maybe you’ll get passionate about it again!

It’s interesting to me that people would want reading to be a social activity. I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s just that I, and most people I know who read, do it as a solitary activity without much desire to talk to people about what they are reading. It’s rare I talk to anyone about anything I’m reading.

There are more and more silent book clubs sprouting up, maybe that would be for you? Where everyone just shows up but read silently because they all read their own book of choice, so it’s time with others in a shared activity but in a parallel way.

I think it’s kind of cool to read something no one else is reading.

I can see why it would be frustrating if you have a lot to say about it and no one to say it to. I still think it’s important to put your thoughts out there. You may get a response years later!