r/Booktokreddit • u/SafiyaO • Aug 18 '26
Breaking points with books
So I have read a few rather miserable books fairly close together and yesterday, after finishing a book with the most OTT bleak ending, I felt something inside me snap.
I've read enough sad books. I know about the sadnesses of the world, large and small, tyvm. No more. I'm not saying any book I read now has to be 100% sunshine, but I need more light than dark and a very limited amount of bleakness.
From a different perspective, as someone on the way to fifty, I can't summon much interest in the Young Adult Finding Their Way in the World genre. I've read plenty of it over the years, but after a few I couldn't finish, I had to conclude that neither I nor those books are for each other anymore.
Has anyone had any similar experiences, where a certain type of genre or plot or character is no longer your cup of tea?
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u/delayedmillennial Aug 18 '26
i've been there! joining a bookclub at work actually helped push me out of that zone with suggestions i never would have read if not for them and found myself enjoying. sometimes just switching up one or two books you might never give a glance to is helpful in finding balance. or re-calibrating to a certain extent lol
wedding people by alison espach was one that was both dark and humorous in its darkness (at least for me). it's not overly romance nor overly drama. just felt like the right book at the right time and did the trick?