Apologies in advance if this comes off as an awkward request, as I’m finding it awkward to even type out.
I’m still working on coming to terms with the loss of my grandmother to a sudden, short bout with illness a month and some change ago. One of the things she loved to do is read books, and it was an inside joke between us where I would be asked whether I had read anything recently, knowing full well that the chance of me reading anything was slim at best, even though I would always tell her that I’d read something at some point. While it is “too little too late” to actually share what I am reading with her, I’d like to put in at least some effort to read a book every now and then as a way to make good on what I said I would do.
Unfortunately, most of all the books that I have are ones that I’ve already read, and the select few that I haven’t are ones I no longer have an interest in reading. Compounding this issue is that it has been well over a decade since I read books as a hobby, as reading textbooks and required novels to complete assignments in high school and college had a big impact for the worse on any interest in reading. As such, while my genres of interest are relatively the same, I don’t know what’s out there that would make for a good read, as most of what I have fond memories of reading was marketed toward “teen” or “young adult” readers, which I imagine may not really be suitable options at this point. With that being said, I’m hoping that there may be something out there that would make for a good occasional read (~1-2 chapters every few days, or as time allows) based on what I had an interest in reading back in the day:
-Action/fantasy (was a big fan of Alex Rider and Maximum Ride in middle school)
-Apocalypse/post-apocolyptic (World War Z and Mira Grant’s Newsflesh trilogy)
-War novels (used to be a fan of fictional WW2 novels in elementary and middle school, but I am unsure of whether there are any books out there in that genre marketed toward adult readers)
-“Memoir”/recounting memories books (such as Tuesdays with Morrie and Just Don’t Fall, which were two of the last books I’ve read)
-“Banned” books (Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill A Mockingbird to name a few)
-Books similar to Where the Red Fern Grows (still my favorite book to this day, and one I read every few years)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have!
by SwordzGuy