Around when COVID started, I stopped reading even though I used to love it as a child. I’m a senior in high school now, and mostly, the only books I’ve read in the past year have been for school. I feel so stressed out all the time that I can barely get myself to focus, even on things I’m really interested in. My aunt got me American Prometheus for my birthday, and I was so happy because I loved Oppenheimer, but I’m barely 30 pages in months later. I feel so sad and disappointed in myself, and I really wish I could just be my seven-year-old self again and read nonstop.
I absolutely loved The Stranger by Camus when I read it for my English class last year, and I even read The Myth of Sisyphus because of how much I loved it. Other than that, I’ve read a few books on Irish history during the troubles, specifically centering around the 1981 hunger strike because I wrote a paper about it for school (but the outside reading wasn’t necessary, it was out of personal interest).
I need books that are short or that move quickly, or just anything I can focus on. I’m desperate. I want to read again. I’ll read fiction, especially if it’s anything like The Stranger, but I generally tend to be more interested in history. I’d like to learn more about African or Asian history because I don’t know much about it, but I’m generally very into European history.
by Moonshot_Melody