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I've missed a couple of weeks' worth of Book Blogger Hop prompts, so let's play catch up!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Are there any books with themes or characters dealing with issues related to mental health that you have found to be enlightening or comforting It might be a bit of a cliche answer, but I've found Matt Haig's books to be both comforting and helpful, especially some of his mental health non-fiction. I read The Comfort Book and Notes on a Nervous Planet when I was really struggling with anxiety and agoraphobia, to the point where I couldn't leave the house. There was just something so calming, so comforting and so relaxing about them that genuinely helped soothe my brain.

I recently read The Midnight Library - a book I'd been wanting to read for AGES but had been putting off because I got nervous I wouldn't like it (I hadn't been thrilled by one of Haig's other fiction books I read). It was, however, utterly fantastic and I gave it 5 stars. The descriptions of Nora's depression resonated so strongly with me.

Do you consider yourself a book collector or a book hoarder? Oh, definitely a collector. The collection looks a little hoard-like at the moment; there's piles of books everywhere because I'm sorting them, cataloguing, reshelving and figuring out a) how many more bookshelves I need and b) where they're going to go.

Summer often means more time for reading. Do you have a list of books you're eager to start reading during June's warm days? Do you have a summer reading goal? I'm not really a seasonal reader, but I did post my current summer TBR earlier this week.
I don't think I have any specific summer reading goals, other than continuing to read most days and try to focus a little on some of my reading challenges that aren't very far along.

Will society suffer in the future as a result of the younger generations' lack of reading? OK so I don't have any first hand knowledge of this, but based on what I've seen/heard, I'm going with yes. I also don't think it's the actual issue at hand, but rather a symptom of something much larger - although I can't pin down what that actually is. Like, it would be super easy to blame social media for 'rotting kids brains' and 'causing short attention spans' but then you only have to look at the size of the bookish community on social media which is filled with readers of all ages - including, yes, the younger generations. I'm sure I've even seen stats that things like TikTok are inspiring teens/new adults to start reading and reading is trending upwards again

There's a whole other rant about the way social media works and preys on people and oh I wish how it worked like it did 5, 10, years ago when it just showed me the people I'm following in chronological order - my social media experience is very carefully curated, I met pretty much my whole friends group through social media and lets not forget I met my fiancee on AO3 and Tumblr. But, as I said, that's a whole other thing... it is connected tangentially in that it's a symptom of the same larger issue that's affecting society.

I don't know if 'suffer' is necessarily what's going to happen with society. Society is currently undergoing such a huge change through all levels and because we're right in the middle of it, we can't see the end of it and it's scary and it's easy to blame 'the younger generations'. I'm a Millennial - we're still getting blamed for everything after all!

I don't know that I've actually answered the question - the answer is both yes and no and it's complicated - but this is the post that it inspired!
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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.

This week's topic is Books on My Summer 2024 To-Read List and this is a mixture of books I'm currently reading that I'm hoping to finish over the coming weeks, and books at the very top of my TBR

Firstly, books I'm determined to finish this summer:

Heather Fawcett - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Emily Henry - Book Lovers
Ronald Hutton - The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Sarah J. Maas - A Court of Wings and Ruin
Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow

And for the books I'm looking to start reading this summer:

Ben Aaronovitch - False Value
K.C. Davis - How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising
Evie Meg - My Nonidentical Twin
Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Last Olympian
Erin Sterling - The Kiss Curse

Will I actually get to any of these? who knows!

What's on your summer TBR?
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My reading list for the coming week looks something like:

finish BBC Science Focus June 2024 (currently 28%)
finish Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (currently 81%)
finish Alix E Harrow - The Ten Thousand Doors of January (currently 19%)
finish Neil MacGregor - A History Of The World in 100 Objects (55%)

read Ruth Goodman - How To Be A Victorian (currently 22%)
read Thomas Halliday - Otherlands (currently 14%)
read Emily Henry - Book Lovers (currently 29%)
read Ronald Hutton - Stations of the Sun (currently 53%)

start Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist
start Joanne Fluke - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (and try to finish because it's due back to the library next week and I can't renew because someone's reserved it!)
start Nicola Lewis - Em & Me
start Nancy Warren - Lace & Lies

I've also started the full cast audiobook of Good Omens. Audiobooks aren't something I usually listen to, I zone out but I need an audiobook for a challenge and figured this was a good option. We'll see how it goes!
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My reading list for the coming week looks something like:

finish Sharon Blackie - If Women Rose Rooted (currently 42%)
finish Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (currently 40%)
finish Emily Henry - Book Lovers (currently 29%)

read Ruth Goodman - How To Be A Victorian (currently 7%)
read Neil MacGregor - A History Of The World in 100 Objects (39%)

start Heather Fawcett - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
start Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist
start Thomas Halliday - Otherlands
start Gabrielle Nevin - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
start Nancy Warren - Lace & Lies

Do I expect to get to all of these books this week?
No.
But I have ADHD and like to have a variety of books to bounce between reading. I'm probably most likely to focus on A History of the World and I'll see where the week takes me
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I'm slowly working on bringing down the number of books I've started but haven't finished. It's currently sitting at 13 and I ideally want to get it to 10 or under (that's the number of different sources I have for books - and will be the subject of a later blog post where I ramble about how I choose the books I'm reading)

My reading goals for the coming week look something a little like:
finish Juliet Ashton - The Sunday Lunch Club (currently 44%)
finish Sharon Blackie - If Women Rose Rooted (currently 42%)
start Jeremy Clarkson - Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
finish Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (currently 40%)
start Alix E Harrow - The Starling House
finish Emily Henry - Book Lovers (currently 29%)
finish Milly Johnson - The Teashop on the Corner (currently 57%)
finish Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow (currently 59%)
finish Stacey Solomon - Happily Imperfect (currently 34%)
start Nancy Warren - Lace & Lies
(to be fair, I'm spending over 6 hours on trains on Tuesday so it's not as daunting as it seems!)

What's on your reading list for the week?

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