HYRCYED 2.0 and Reading Slumps

Hello there!

Long time, no type.

I’m back to reading after going through a pretty significant slump and I wanted to tell you what broke me out of it.

I was watching videos on YouTube from various BookTube creators when I came across one for the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do a.k.a. HYRCYED. This is actually the second year of it’s existence, hence the 2.0 in the title. I watched a creator talking about their planned TBR and then I switched over to the announcement video of the challenge’s creator, Qwordy. If you haven’t heard of this challenge then I strongly encourage you to go take a look at it: Source: YouTube https://share.google/1oDlKKCFCQgrgzELU

Something strange happened to me as I watched that video and then subsequent videos of creators who were preparing to tackle this year-long challenge: I got excited. I was inspired. I wanted to join in and do it to.

But could I? Even with doubling up (which I don’t particularly want to do) it’s more books than I have read in the past few years. And then I thought about what the consequences would be if I failed…and of course there aren’t any. There’s no harm done if I fail. In fact the challenge is designed to be so hard that most people will fail. But is there really a downside when it comes to reading more books? I think not.

So I’m going for it!

I’ve decided not to plan too much ahead. I think that will cause me to freeze or pause if something doesn’t go according to plan. I’ll make some light plans the categories where I don’t naturally read those types of books.

I started on July 7th and I’ve already read 41 books!