"Reading is boring."
That is my statement.
It's been my statement for roughly a month now. Since the beginning of November to the end of the second trimester, I was on a hiatus. A hiatus from reading and when I had finished a book after four months, I had found myself in an unfortunate predicament.
I cannot read. At least for entertainment anyway. Just look at my status on Goodreads. It'll say "Currently Reading" and there will be a list of books that I'm "currently reading". And I put the quotations there because I am not "currently reading". I'm not "currently reading" anything.
Last year, I can breeze through the Harry Potter series in one day. I loved reading. And I loved showing off how fast I can read. Reading was so fun. But now I feel like I've read all the books in the world.
I was doing okay before; I finished two books.
Maybe I'm just annoyed about the four month-long read and that's why reading bothers me now? I mean, 1Q94 was originally a 1157-page novel translated from Japanese that was split into three books to make it more reader-friendly (WHICH DIDN'T WORK BY THE WAY) and I bought from Barnes and Noble without knowing what it was about. I didn't have any background knowledge on it. I didn't even have an idea. It didn't have a summary on the box set and I was a bit terrified.
But I was also really excited.
This book was fun to read; it had a lot of plot twists and mystery to it and it was fun going up and down the roller coaster. There were some graphic scenes though, many were unnecessary and tmi so I had to skip some pages. Because one: I'm a huge baby. Two: I'm fourteen.
It really amazed me though, because for a really simple story (despite all the outlandish ideas and surreal characters) it was really long. Do you know what it's like reading a 1000+ page novel??? (technically it was three but still!!)
Like what I had said with The Shadow of the Wind, the book had way too many words and not enough meaning.
What does 1Q84 mean to me? Well, it means four months I'll never get back. Perhaps I'm too simple-minded to understand. Maybe I haven't been through enough, haven't experience enough to know the meaning of this book but frankly I do not care.
It was terrifying seeing how close I was to the end when there were still so many questions I needed an answer to.
Perhaps it's too soon for me to start reading again after two books with endings to the likes of excrement.
Have you ever read a book that was really good but then went down the wrong path at the last minute?
I was reading an EXCELLENT book series "The Dark is Rising", and the end is just that all the concentrated evil that was defeated was broken and scattered into the hearts of humans WHERE IT ORIGINALLY CAME FROM!
ReplyDeleteI understand where you are coming from! This is so relatable.Last year I was on a tangent, reading books after books after books. And this year, I just can't get into book as much. Maybe I'm just too busy, but I hope to get back into reading when summer rolls around.
ReplyDeleteI can completely relate to this post! During the first two trimesters I think a might have read a total of three books. But as soon as I discovered the Divergent series I found my love for reading again. Now I can't put them down!
ReplyDeleteDear Trang,
ReplyDeleteI love the way you write! It flows nicely and everything always sounds like you. I understand what you mean, by feeling terrified and excited about a book you don't know much about (That was Chaos Walking for me) and my currently reading in Goodreads looks about the same way. I give up books when I have to return them or already can guess at the ending (or accidentally spoiled it for myself on Wikipedia) or when they're just extraordinarily boring. I like the 'reactions' part of your theme, by the way.