You might think about starting a reading club where you meet periodically and people discuss what each of them has been reading. With a book club, everyone reads the same thing but what I’m suggesting is you could get together and each person gets to talk about a book and how they related to it. Just a quick summary of the book because each person has to be willing to listen to the others, but then you can talk about why you felt connected to it, or what it evoked in you.

Tell me about it… I went from rereading ASOIAF 100 times a year to finally branching out and there is no one to discuss with. Very frustrating.

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Read the Dandelion Dynasty guys!!!

I dont care, really. A lot of times Goodreads are just not fair at all. I read a book „Saha“ by Cho Nam-Joo this year, its good, but it barely hits 2.7 stars there. Or Jonathan Carroll, my favourite author of all time. And Goodreads cant event recommend me any book similar to his… But I think, u just read and enjoy it. Create a journal, write some thoughts down, create ur owns little worlds. Reading is ur personal experience created just for u.

Reading non-fiction about niche topics or (kind of) niche books (at least for the current generation) isn’t easy, but that’s book biz. Show must go on. ✊🏻

I like the loneliness it’s just me my book and the world outside my bedroom window sometimes I even get birds that I can watch

what i do is listen to audiobooks with my husband, we dont watch tv or movies unless they are our favorites, a rewatch, or something new that was in our wheel house. We spend a lot of our time together and instead of sitting and watching pointless tv or something we read books together. This gives us books to discuss a larger variety of books the both of us likes and it gets us trying new things, or well old things, we like classics. It’s like listening to a story around a campfire.

we got started doing this because i work remote and was sitting in our spare room turned office with him while he played video games listening to my horror books last october. He didnt understand most of Frankenstein as he was too unfocused but once we started Jurassic park and i started picking more books he might like, and we went from there. It got me further away from romance books and really back into reading, i went from like 11 books a year to 36 from October to the end of the year last year, to over 72 books so far this year. Not all were books together but most were. I hadnt been reading as much and his new found love of books and us discussing them resparked my love of reading.

He didnt like reading bc he’s dyslexic and it takes him along time to read a physical book. Audiobooks really made him love reading more.

try joining someone in listening to a audiobook you might like instead of movie night or game night. My husband calls it story time, its adorable.

I feel this. So many times I’ve read and loved a book, but had no one to talk to about it.

I totally relate to that but only for certain books. That why I joined a bookclub, but sadly the book club became unreliable and also scheduling conflict issues until we just ended it (well the host) altogether. I haven’t had great luck with online bookclubs it always felt empty. I like meeting in person having that community with others etc.

But otherwise I like reading alone it’s my space to relax and enjoy it or not lol.

Just like I don’t trust most movie reviewers analysis on what I would like, I don’t trust book reviewers. I have no problem going to the library, looking at the dust cover on 3 or 4 books and taking them home. If I find a book or two I don’t care for after reading a few pages, back it goes. I read what I like, not what someone else thinks I’ll like.

This is part of what got me into fantasy books. I never cared for them tbh but a friend recommended the first mistborn book and on my old account I posted updates on the Brandon Sanderson subreddit and they were so welcoming and encouraging. Got me to read a lot of the rest of his stuff and now I’m into fantasy as a genre

Hmm that might actually why I read books that I can talk about. A few friends of mine have accused me of having super pretentious reading tastes, but I tend not to read anything that I can’t talk about - either I’ll talk to someone else who has read it, or I will work it into a conversation, or it will be non-fiction and I’ll learn something from it. I’m reading a book right now that I’ve brought up tons of times, in conversations with my siblings, in conversations at church, and in conversations with my husband… I don’t think any of them have read it, but by god they will hear about it. And they don’t necessarily have to have read it in order to talk about it - it can spark a conversation about adjacent things. And then sometimes, if you meet someone with similar reading taste, you CAN read the same books! I finally have a friend like that, and we read all the same things and chat about them on a weekly walk. It’s great.

I’ve never felt the need to be social about my reading. I’d rather spend that time. . . reading.

This quote speaks to me.

surprised at how good it felt to be talking with someone about a book. - Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

What kind of books do you read? I have a friend who I co-read with a lot. My wife and I will also read the same books a lot.

I have almost no desire to share my reading with anyone but my husband.

I only read a book when I am lonely