#I've read some Discworld and i want to read locked tomb and my partner is reading us the rangers apprentice series | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

onyourstageleft · 1 month ago

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I'm going to be a certified library professional in a few short weeks, I have a solid understanding of the need to read broadly and should have a strong personal commitment to doing so, but more often than not, I end up reading fanfic for the one relatively obscure YA universe that has engrained itself into my very being rather than reading literally anything else and I don't know how to feel about it

#feel kinda bad on a professional level like i am an incredible hypocrite #but genuinely nothing can make me feel the same way that a well-written Tortall fanfic can #these characters have lived rent free in my brain for 15+ years i could not get more connected to a fantasy series than I currently am #i have been doing my best to read other things but even then i haven't branched out from fantasy!!#I've read some Discworld and i want to read locked tomb and my partner is reading us the rangers apprentice series #but i simply do not read nonfiction!!#or even mystery or scifi or horror!!#I need to do more but the fanfic is right there in my phone! i dont even need to go to the library #which is absolutely absurd to say as someone who genuinely loves to go to the library #so on one hand i feel bad about not reading anything else but on the other hand I like it!!#once i don't have the chaos of being in school and house hunting i really need to crack down on myself #because i KNOW i will enjoy other things #it's just a matter of forcing myself out of my comfort zone even when the comfort zone feels so cozy #yes this has literally just been a vent post about my frustration with my own reading habits

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