So as a kid and up until about 23, I was a voracious reader. I’d read anything and everything my mom had on the shelf. No matter how long, how “above” my age level it may have been, or how absurd- I’d read. I was never without a book in my hand and would read a novel daily. When I hit 23, I went back to college while working full time, and my beloved pleasure reading was replaced by textbooks and journal articles. While I have had ADHD most of my life, as an adult now in my 40’s, it is WAY worse and even though I graduated with my second degree I. 2016, I’ve struggled to take up reading again. I have been working on the same book for over a year and a half now.
So my question is twofold:
Firstly, if anyone has had similar experience, how did you get back into reading? I’ve tried Audible and it was such a crapshoot on how sleepy the narrators are, and I get distracted while listening and have to start a chapter over multiple times. I definitely enjoy a physical book over audio or e reader.
Secondly, I feel that going back into reading young adult or even some kids books may help with the length and ease of reading until I can establish better habits for reading. I am terribly out of the loop with good YA and especially kids books. I don’t have kids so didn’t really keep up. What are your suggestions for good YA, Kids, or easy read adult fiction? My favorite authors have always been Sidney Sheldon, John Irving, and John Steinbeck but I’m currently finding Irving’s last novel hard to give time to even though it is good. As a teen, I read all the Harry Potter series and as a pre teen I adored Redwall series by Brian Jacques (I’ve thought about reading them all again, but the length of each novel is a holdup). I like fantasy, drama, whimsy, suspense (but not really the whodunnit murder mystery type) and dislike most sci-fi and westerns. Also, if it helps, my favorite genre of films are arthouse style films such as High Life, Dream Scenario, The Lighthouse, and anything Wes Anderson. The movies that make you think and leave a lot of the context to the viewer, as a book would.
I want to find my love for reading again! My library card is raring to go!
by closefarhere