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Cake day: November 17th, 2023

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  • Three times now I’ve had to read a genre I generally dislike for a reading challenge, and three times now I’ve found a book I adored as a result. I ended up with some DNF books I hated as well, but I always ended up finding one I loved in the end.

    The first was a historical romance, which is VERY MUCH not my usual jam. Ended up reading Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure and laughing my ass off. Turns out, I’m entirely down with romance novels as long as they’re funny!

    The second was a political thriller (too much tension in a world that’s too real tends to stress me out, so I avoid them), but While Justice Sleeps had me super engaged. I love it when highly intelligent protagonists are working against highly intelligent antagonists, and this definitely gave my brain the excited chemicals instead of the anxious ones.

    Thirdly was a horror novel, but someone on r/fantasy recommended some fantasy/horror crossover books for folks who were feeling nervous about this square on the Fantasy Bingo card, and so I ended up reading The Library at Mount Char, figuring I couldn’t gate any book with a library in its title too badly. And I ended up adoring it! It was dark, but dark in a way that gripped and fascinated me, rather than giving me nightmares.

    Anyway, this is why I love doing reading challenges every year. It breaks me out of my comfort zone and introduces me to stories and authors I never would have discovered otherwise.