Overall mood: hopeful – As you may have noticed, I have been a little M.I.A. here on annafromuni over the last month. This isn’t a bad thing; if anything, it has been for a good reason. I have taken the time to do a system restart of my brain when it comes to annafromuni content, hence the weeks off posting, but in the process, I have been dipping my toes back into reading, as you have seen with Every Day I Read.

To give a little more context, considering life has been fairly busy over the last month, I have been finishing up one part of my PhD data collection and finalising bits for the other, requiring a bit of my time. I have also got a presentation approaching, but a little more on that in a later post. Safe to say I have had priorities over posting, and I have been happy to put reading and blogging aside for a bit to focus on those tasks. May is an exciting month for me, so I am looking forward to the fun things I will be able to share with you over the next few weeks and the books I get around to reading. I have more than a handful of discussion post ideas for you to read, and the book reviews will come through when they do; I am not fussed with that.

Book Read:

Every Day I Read by Hwang Boreum

This book has been a game-changer for me in terms of how I look at my reading slump, taking what can be a frustrating and draining journey and turning it into something fun, something grounded in discovery, opportunity and interest. It is written as a guide for discovery books and reading. How I have utilised the teachings is by rediscovering my why for reading, tapping back into the learning and cultural experience of it all, and making it exciting and engaging mentally and emotionally again. It has been like a breath of fresh air in that regard, and it makes reading a pleasure again instead of a burden to be dealt with. I highly recommend it for all readers, new and old, fresh to the space and veterans in the high sea of global literature. It is such an easy read, akin to a healing fiction, but backed up by quotes and thoughts connecting to the texts brought up along the way.