It's not a competition!! Say it louder for the people in the back 🗣 👏🏾📚📚📚
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
I wish people absorbed that one more often but I think it’s all we will be yelling til the end of time as readers 💖💖💖
@Imhrien
Ай бұрын
"Be...careful?" 😂😂😂 Listen, I could read a book at the snail pace of a page a day and STILL not be able to remember character names! Even books I love to shreds, I struggle to remember character names. It's like a legit bookworm disorder, I swear! I could probably tell you exactly what page something happened on, but don't ask me anybody's name! 😅
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
@@Imhrien well you know head down in book means your just running into stuff 😂 Oh same character names are never my friend even if I’m actively reading it. Then half the summaries don’t even have them which never helps and every other book is the same names 💀
@ashcraft555
Ай бұрын
Love it! I'm a fast reader and it is strange how people get about it. I once had someone interrogate me about how the reason I switched from physical books to ebooks had to be because I was getting so many severe papercuts. Nothing I said would convince her that it was really a combination of a physical disability that made holding books painful, being able to get new library books at 3 a.m., and having to get rid of a lot of physical books because the floors in my house were sagging. She was completely convinced that reading at higher speed meant I was turning the pages super fast and just slicing the crap out of my hands. To this day I still wish I had asked her if she thought I was just returning library books covered in blood. And the only reason I am a fast reader is because I'm too impatient to wait more than a couple hours to know what happens. I don't have a voice in my head when I'm reading because I couldn't wait for it to catch up with me as a kid when I was trying to find out if Nancy Drew solved the mystery of the missing jewels and the Russian ballerina who is maybe being held prisoner by the guy with the thick mustache. It's really borne more of a personality flaw than anything else. It's weird when people expect me to consider it some kind of moral superiority. I just want more people to read! I don't care how fast, what format, what genre, whatever. Let's just enjoy books!
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
I can not stop giggling at the idea of just constant paper cuts from reading 😂 people are wild. Yes it’s totally a flaw sometimes! I also don’t have the voice and sometimes I’m jealous others do 😂
@heabooktubes
Ай бұрын
Repetitive discourse monster. 😂
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
I had another name for them but it was less nice 💀
@gabz49242
Ай бұрын
I was at my brother-in-law's house and I mentioned a book I saw that was an Arthurian retelling and sounded interesting. They told me it was a book their friend had written, which was also really exciting. But then my sister-in-law was like, "Oh, I haven't picked up a work of fiction in *years*." I wasn't sure how to proceed, because after two graduate degrees (and a ton of very cerebral reading) within the same ten years, I've been enjoying getting back into fiction for pure enjoyment since about 2022. Also, self-help books. You mentioned them, and I cringed inwardly. Maybe it's because we've all had a job that made us read a really bad self-help book. Or maybe it's because I have yet to find one that felt like decent advice that was worth the 30 dollars people are asking for a new book these days.
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
I love this for you returning to fiction it’s nice, nonfiction is fantastic too but sometimes the ability to escape is just what you need. Haha yes the business books 😭 I’ve had to read them. It’s just sometimes there’s a helpful self help book but so often it’s the same things over and over 💖💖💖
@BooksToAshes
Ай бұрын
As a slow reader I’m just jealous I can’t read faster 😂 but I know myself enough that I can’t read fast or I can’t absorb anything, and I don’t like audiobooks because I can’t focus so it’s partially my own fault but at the same time reading is a hobby, the pacing shouldn’t matter. People forget that I think 🙃
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
100% it’s all valid and okay to do what works best for you
@elizabethnutley8841
Ай бұрын
I'm a slower reader, and my imaginary friction has come from feeling like I *ought* to be increasing my wpm for the sake of efficiency. I track things on goodreads and my number of books or pages read per year hasn't changed substantially for a few years now. Pushing harder with it just causes slumps that bring my numbers back to normal. 😅 "Relax and enjoy!" is an ideal I aspire to. Imperfectly at times! My continued engagement with another reader online relies on my intersection of reading interests with theirs (bring on those recs!), the insights they bring to their commentary, and the uniqueness of their voice. A faster reader will provide more of all of those, and if there's any regret, it's that I can't reciprocate in kind.
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
That’s fair cause at the end of the day it’s all about what you’re able to do without causing a slump etc… I always lean into when I need the break vs forcing it which is important for any reading slump or near slump. Yes all of that! It’s really beneficial for any reader no matter their speed. Its all about finding those who talk about books your interested in and get you excited to pick up new stuff 💖💖💖
@MegBookishRamblings
Ай бұрын
I loved your fast reader parody! I'm a fast reader and I've had my fair share of people doubting if I actually read the amount I did, wanting to know why I read so much and being judgmental in general. Reading is my main hobby which includes books, audiobooks, manga and graphic novels and it brings me joy. The only person I'm in a competition with about reading is myself to see if I can increase my yearly amount of books read and that's fine by me. I still find it interesting to see how many people books can read in a year but don't judge them for reading more or less than me.
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
It’s such a weird judgement to get when we are always just competing with yourself. I’m glad you enjoyed it I had fun making it 💖💖💖
@MegBookishRamblings
29 күн бұрын
@@HappyforNow Yes I very much agree! It was very entertaining and I'm glad you had fun making it :D .
@marisagettas
Ай бұрын
Trying to tell people who know my health issues that I ‘only read 187 books this year’. “Oh wow, that’s a lot, but like, all you do is lie around all day, so I guess it tracks.” WHUT. “No actually this is me with brain fog, ptsd, a lot of sleep, and whatever covid did to my brain. If I was healthy, I’d be closer to 400 books” Cue stunned look on their faces.
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
The stunned looked is always the highlight for me because I’ll do the well it’s not even my highest reading year. Also the rudeness of well all you do is lay around people are awful 💖💖💖
@ashcraft555
Ай бұрын
I stopped setting reading goals because my chronic health problems would get in the way of completing them sometimes and I couldn't talk to anyone about it because they'd either tell me my goal was unreasonable anyway or they'd decide I was trying to humble brag. So frustrating. (Don't get me started on the time I tried to discuss it with a doctor to explain the effect my symptoms have on me!)
@ShainaInColorland
Ай бұрын
Loved this!! You did a great job! 💜
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
Thanks Shaina 💖💖💖💖
@Emily-fh8en
Ай бұрын
Lol say it! Slow reader, fast reader, whatever we are all readers!
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
Exactly this we can always talk about the books even if it’s different genres and amounts 💖💖💖
@booktalkwithtati
Ай бұрын
i loved this 📚
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
💖💖💖
@ohladysamantha
Ай бұрын
i just wish people would be chill about this and love the fact that there are so many kinds of readers out there! the fact that people read at all is incredible!
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
Sameeee I get tired of how repetitive the discourse on it is and just weird superiority some people get about it all 💖💖💖
@MLanou
Ай бұрын
I am so sad that there is no free pizza 😅
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
Seriously I miss the free pizza 😭
@carlys987
Ай бұрын
it's me. I'm the fast reader that judges slow readers ((I'M KIDDING))
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
@@carlys987 I knew someone would admit to this 😂😂😂
@carlys987
Ай бұрын
@@HappyforNow people just need to get on my level 😤😤
@lindsey8669
Ай бұрын
I think school and book spaces on social media reward people who can read a lot of books in a short period of time. Maybe no one is running around telling people "if you can't read x amount of books in y amount of time, you suck" (although I have experienced that kind of explicit judgement on multiple occasions) but I think people have spent a lot of their lives being implicitly told that they're failures for not being fast readers. So, they start to expect judgment from anyone who publicly shows themselves being a fast reader, and I guess some people try to cope with that by developing a superiority complex about reading slowly. I'm not trying to excuse people being a-holes, but the competitive, defensive attitude isn't coming out of nowhere.
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
School and hobby book spaces are so different that needs to be acknowledged more for sure on the origins of people feeling inadequate as a hobby reader. For me and this video it’s about how people expect fast readers to treat slower readers. The reality is vast majority of us never care and often are talked down to for how we prioritize our time 🤷🏻♀️
@mwahaha3750
Ай бұрын
no bc this discourse is so funny as if most fast readers are looking down their noses at other readers most of them dgaf
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
Agreed we are busy reading 😂 we don’t care
@StephanieWhitson
Ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
💖💖💖
@jenny_reads
Ай бұрын
People are so sensitive nowadays that a creator has to give clarifications for a whole minute before starting the video
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
I wouldn't say it's sensitivity more that there is a big lack of comprehension that something is a parody these days 😅
@tracym2881
Ай бұрын
📚🤭
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
💖💖💖
@lusalma5404
Ай бұрын
I mean audiobooks allow us to read and do other hobbies at the same time :) I can play wow or put together a puzzle. But yeah... no one cares how many books a person reads and even if you are skimming through a book doesn't mean you aren't getting anything out of it.
@BooksToAshes
Ай бұрын
My friend skims every book she reads, I don’t personally understand it but I don’t say anything because it’s not my business. The only negative is that I can’t discuss books with her since she doesn’t remember anything, but if she enjoys it then hey, all the power to her.
@ohladysamantha
Ай бұрын
in my opinion, skimming books is valid depending on the sort of book it is. like you can read a cookbook or a poetry collection cover to cover, but you also don't have to! Or those books that are sort of fun reference like "a historical event for every day of the year."
@lusalma5404
Ай бұрын
@@BooksToAshes Yeah; I vary. I am more likely to skim something I am rereading. Also at times I remember things I read 10 years ago (though it did have multiple rereads) more than something I read last week.
@HappyforNow
Ай бұрын
Exactly! I love how audiobooks let me stack hobbies it’s such a nice perk 💖 And some books are made for skimming (looking at those self help books and educational ones) sometimes 🤷🏻♀️
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