LoL i mean i would find it funny and interesting if my mom gave me that book. Its such a popular book just within pop culture alone and might be a fun flip trough but not something you read seriously. I like being gifted books though and can usually find appreciation for most genres and find at some pint ill pick it up and give it a try. I also feel sentimental about books when they’re given to me by someone i love and sometimes by chance there’s a winner! my sister gifted me Patrick Rothfuss the name of the wind and its 100 percent one of my favorite books of all time and now its tied to her and it makes it more special for me to reread it with that in my heart… Maybe if it bothers you make a good reads account and keep a shelf of books you’d loveee to own and then your mom or whoever can look at the list and pick from there. and then you take it off when you get it so no repeats happen. that’s what me and my boyfriend do so he can buy me what i really want but its still a surprise because the list is really big lol

I really really really try to give a book at least 100 pages. sometimes ill DNF sooner if I’m just not in the mood for the type of book it is but I know ill pick it up later. but a true DNF where I’m just not happy and I have no desire to ever pick it back up again I still try to push through at least to 100. Only because the first 50 pages of any book is really “entry level” things rarely start to pick up before then or have a good sense of what’s going on. books deserve that grace period of pages to see if you are into it or not.

I think personally I hated them in comparison to hunger games. I just don’t think it even holds a candle to it. Maybe if I’d read divergent first…maybe I’d feel different but just my opinion in my experience of both. Feel same about the movies.

Divergent

I know this is not healthy and a little weird but it helps me so much.

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NOPE, you’re 100 percent wrong here. There is nothing unhealthy about revisiting a favorite book that takes you back to a cozy safe place. Millions of people do this. Millions of people do this also with Harry Potter lol Don’t let yourself feel bad about reading. ever!

Would you say revisiting an old friend is unhealthy? no. And that’s exactly what your doing. Rereading a favorite book or re watching a favorite movie or show is absolutely fine to do and is like visiting an old friend. Obviously you should always explore other things in life and not just be on a constant loop of rereading it over and over and over all year long lol but if your making time for other things then revisit it as much as you want! I have reread the HP series maybe 3 times in full and the first 3 for sure 4 or 5 time lol I also revisit “the Giver” which is my childhood favorite a lot, maybe once a year, give or take. For more “adult” read, I have read Patrick Rothfuss “The name of the wind” twice so far but I know for a fact that I will reread that book every couple years for the rest of my life. It’s a piece of art in the fact that it NEEDS to be revisited because its so beautiful and complex that you could read it every year for 90 years and find something new about it. or interpret something new about it.

NEVER stop doing what makes you happy

A Monsters call

the book and the movie were beautiful but never will I ever again read or watch it. It tore me apart and never put me back together again. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so hard in both a book or a movie. Let alone a movie that is the book lol I don’t even know why I put myself though the movie after what the book did to me. I think at the time the book was getting such high praise and even though I knew it would be emotional I thought that I could handle it and wanted to test that. I failed miserably on the floor.

I really don’t like when people have this mindset for reading. As in “thinking they are too old” All reading is good reading. I still read middle grade books when I’m in the mood and I have a fantastic time. I don’t know why you would think you shouldn’t enjoy a book because you aren’t within the demographic for it anymore. That’s just silly. I agree that some YA books defiantly don’t “hit the spot” for me and sometimes I wish it had been written for in the light for adults but that doesn’t mean there aren’t gems out there I for sure think Hunger Games is a gem. I just wish people would be life long readers of any genre instead of putting themselves in a box of how they think there reading adventures should be. you might surprise yourself if you branch out.

I would start fallowing along to some audiobooks while reading the physical. I swear it helps turn off the inner voice that is thinking about other things and will push your eyes through the words faster, its great to because you can speed up the audio book and really get through it quicker. There’s nothing wrong with being a slow reader and never give up. the more you do it the more seasoned you become and then in a few years you’ll look back and see the progress.

No not at all. I think all reading is good reading. I even still read middle grade when I’m in the mood for it. YA is probably the hardest for me to get into just because I may loooove the concept but the delivery always feels like it would’ve been better of it wasn’t YA. But I’ll never just stop reading things because society wants you to “challenge” yourself due to your age. It’s ok to read lighter things and take that in like we do with trash TV sometimes. I think if you only read one thing your missing out on a weird of joy. It’s still exercising your brain and if you’re enjoying it then who cares. I think it comes naturally too. Like I just read Stephen Kings IT and found it fantastic! But now I’m reading a magical YA romance that’s light and fluffy lol. Just fallow your mood.