Top Ten Tuesday ~ Things getting in the way of my reading

Hello!

We are in early for the May 16th prompt, about what’s getting in our way of reading: What’s taking up your time right now? – lovingly stolenfrom A Cocoon of Books during freebie week. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

1) Work;

Although I wouldn’t qualify my job as hard per say, working in customer service has me exausted sometimes. Especially with entitled customers, that can be hard to deal with- weekends are especially worst-, and ofcourse being low staffed and having way too many things to do at once for a sea of customers. When i’m needed to do 10hrs shifts or even stretch of more than 5days in a row, my head feels like exploding and I can’t concentrate on anything 😅

2) Noise;

The one thing that makes me unable to read in the daytime, or at work, is the presence of noise. The TV being too loud, people chatting, my mother speaking too loud – and constantly, are things that my brain wanna try to focus on – instead of the book i’m trying to read… so it doesn’t quite work 😅 I don’t absorb the words that i’m tryna read, english being particularly difficult for me.

3) Hyrule Warriors Legend 3DS (Trailer)

This is what i’ve been obsessively playing lately – quite an older game, but i’ve been having fun playing the adventure modes. I had bought all the DLCs and many of the things remained unlocked as I had trouble with this gameplay back in the days- so I’ve just been unlocking new weapons & fighters and just overall loving it!

4) The Legend of Zelda; Tears of The Kingdom (Trailer)

The Breath of the Wild sequel that just came out- May 11th. As we speak, I should’ve had received my copy and we just know i’m gonna be binge-playing this obsessively 😅 It had been so bad with BOTW that I had problem falling asleep at night as all I wanted to do was play – which was on Wii U back then I didn’t own a switch, so I couldn’t play in my room.. I had to try to position the manette in a specific position facing the wall and it kept unplugging..

5) …My brain

Last but not least on my list- my brain itself 😆. You know the moment where you know you could do a various list of things.. reading being one of them, but you just- nothing seems to scratch the itch?? You keep trying to figure out what you wanna do or what you should do, that you end up doing absolutely nothing, or something absolutely unproductive? yeah.

What’s keeping you from reading right now?