AngiefayeReads

As the majority of my reading is adult contemporary romance and KU smut, I try to expand my reading into other genres, age groups, and formats. One of those expansion areas is into graphic novels and Manga.  A couple years ago, I tried some manga and finally decided that it wasn't for me. I kept getting confused with the art style and reading right to left. It really upset me because I wanted to like manga.  Several of the booktubers I follow have been getting into manga over the last 6 months or so. Or I'm just now realizing how much manga some of them do read. One particular booktuber, Gavin, has fallen in love with manga especially the One Piece series. He had a patreon only 48 hour readathon last month called Geekend. Where the goal was to do the things that make you a geek. So he read manga for the whole weekend.  After watching the vlog I was encouraged to try out some more manga. So I went to the library to find some manga to read. I picked up the first volume in s...

 Let's just ignore the fact that I've neen gone for about a month now.  I wanna talk about reading slumps today. I was in a bit of a slump in January. Not unusual for me. Considering my mood and my mental state play a big factor in how much I read and my enjoyment of the book. The end of September 2022, I started the worst reading slump of my life. I finished one book the last week of the month. It wasn't a long book. And I should've finished it so much quicker that I did.  The slump continued through the whole month of October where I finished 15 books. I know 15 books in a month is really great for a lot of people. But my average reading in 2022 was 29 books completed in a month. My lowest reading month was February with 24 books. And highest reading month was June with 36. After October my monthly average dropped significantly.  I tried everything I could think of to get me out of my reading slump sooner. Graphic novels. Novellas. Rereads. Out of my 15 books finis...