Allison Symes's Blog - Posts Tagged "soothing-reading"

I read for all manner of reasons. I read for entertainment. I read to escape. (And with the news so grim everywhere you look, this is an important one!).

I read books by friends because I want to find out what they’ve come up with and to support them. Given they write outside of my genre of flash fiction, I expand my reading tastes doing this and ensure I get plenty of contemporary reading done too so win-win here.

I read non-fiction to find out things in, hopefully, an entertaining way.

And I read comfort books when life is especially grim.

My go-to here is humour. Who doesn’t need a laugh?

Another advantage to networking with fellow writers is I also get useful ideas to add to my reading list. There is always plenty of room for more books on there.

I see nothing wrong in having reading materials specifically to sooth. There is plenty of room for the challenging books. I find you have to be in the right mindset to appreciate those.

But soothing reading is always welcome. There is never a wrong time for that kind of reading.