Reading improvements since book blogging 💫

Reading improvements since book blogging 💫

I’ve talked about this alot in the past two years, but when my depression and anxiety striked me, I had also started to have so much trouble reading.. While I can swear that I wasn’t that slow of a reader, it took me MONTHS to finish a single book — If I even got to the “finish line”. My concentration and imagination took a harsh hit; I wasn’t able to *SEE* the words being acted in my head anymore.. which was my favorite thing- because looking at words on a page? and being *conscious* of it ?? Hell I hated that.

While in high school, I could read 2-3 books simultaneously (One for french class, one for english class and THEN one for pleasure).. I could even read while having music on!
Being a reader for as long as I could remember… this was something very hard to live with and endure, I had lost my greatest ability; and I DID NOT wanted to lose something as precious as enjoying reading, as my godmother has passed it down to me.


 

Of course, I decided blogging so i’d FINALLY have people to chat books with — because, along with having barely only one friend, I has nobody to talk books with.. like the majority of us, it seems!

But over that, it was a little “push” for me to finally getting my reading abilities back. My very first chaotic review that I’ve post right after creating my blog has been “Sweet Thing”Which believe it or not, has been the FIRST BOOK in about a year that I had finished cover-to-cover, and had gotten so much INTO IT that it made me feel all the feels!!! and although it might seems a little “overreacting”, I was so so proud of that.

 

And that was only the beginning- Two years after creating my blog, only a mere few days ago, I hit one of the exciting milestone!! Not only was I able to read fantasy; as of which the first tome of that particular serie had given me lot of trouble understanding (fantasy + second language) .. BUT I am able to read chunks of 25%. at. a.time.!! 

Although the bad thing about this is that erm.. I mostly read thoses at night-time, because far less distractions to start with.. so you can bet it still takes me quite some time to *get* to finish my chunck of 25% in that sitting -Which got me to stay up passed 2-3am reading.. woops- But it stays that it’s the most that i’ve read of a book in one sitting.. and that means i’m improving!! 🥰

 

 

List of my overall achievements since blogging;

♥ Finishing whole books again, only few DNFs compared to before I started. As of which, I’ve read a total of 20+ books in the past two years! (while still not being “huge”, i’ll take it. Opposed to 1-2, it’s still big for me!)
♥ Discovered new genres that I liked (related; Genres I never knew prior to blogging)
♥ Going over my prior “restriction”, and started reading in english — my second language; all books that I had read before had been french
♥ Started reading and loving E-books, recently joined the audio-books too
♥ This one is not solely about books, though it did helped me LOTS to remember what had happened in the two previous book while reading the third tome, I seem to remember things so much better ! I noticed that at work, actually; we got new recipes and after I’ve done it maybe 2-3times I knew it by heart already..

 

 

Of course, I still run into some troubles here and then – thus having still some way to go, but Still!! We’re seeing some bits of improvements here. We all gotta start somewhere ❤️

Did your reading improved aswell since you’ve started blogging?

6 thoughts on “Reading improvements since book blogging 💫

  1. I’ve read more books and I’ve started reading few ARCs but I don’t think my reading has otherwise improved. I am more ready to go out of my comfort though. I don’t try to avoid friends to lovers trope as much as I used to.

  2. Congrats! I can’t imagine losing my…. imagination… while reading. That’s always been my lifeline.

    I wish I could say the same, but as my health fluctuates and slowly worsens, I have issues blogging/writing reviews. As I struggle there, my reading slows. Recently, its gotten much worse, and Ive thought about stopping my blogging and reviewing. Still on the fence there. When things are going rough, I can’t think well enough to write the reviews. My memory takes such a hit.

    Before I started reviewing/ blogging, I often read a fiction and a nonfic book at the same time, and clear 15-20 books a month. Now it’s just one at a time and I’m getting lucky to get 10 books a month, excluding kids books. (I’m not quite sure how I niched myself there 😆😆)

    So, um…. I think I’m the opposite of you 😂. Blogging has made me read less.

    1. Yeah it’s really rough! I hated it.

      Oh noo- im so sorry! Seeing it deteriorate is the worst, although you have a « good » reason as when you’re sick sometimes you don’t feel like doing things like that..

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