Top Ten Tuesday - Outside My Comfort Zone 🙅‍♀️

  

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. Here is the topic of the week:

🙅‍♀️ Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside My Comfort Zone 🙅‍♀️

This week had a "freebie" topic where you could pick one of the old topics or do something else entirely. I chose to to one of the old topics I haven't covered, specifically "Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside My Comfort Zone" from 2019 😄 The original post had 5 books but I decided to focus only on 4 because that is the number of my "out-of-comfort genres." 😂

 

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum - Genre: Healing fiction

This book was my first in this genre and I found it to be the perfect amount of cozy and inspiring. It doesn't call for action; instead, it makes you feel happy and satisfied with the life you have and how you can find joy in the smallest things. It also talks a lot about friendships and reading. Those are two of my fave topics in books, so why is it out of my comfort zone? Well, healing fiction is usually...plot-less 😂 I don't mean it in a bad way, it's just that they're slow paced and the plot is usually just a slice-of-life type of thing where nothing major happens and you're just here for the vibes. This is something I appreciated when I was in the exact mood for it - just that once 😂 I'm probably gonna read this type of book only once, or maybe twice a year, because I love action, twists and crazy plot lines.

(Skoro) sve što znam do sad by Andrea Andrassy - Genre: Nonfiction

Not only is this nonfiction (a genre I try to stay away from at all times), it's also written by a Croatian author (it's not that I don't like writers from my country, it's that they never write anything I'd like to read, aka FICTION. It's always either about war, or life trauma or a biography etc.). Anyways, the title of the book would sound like this in English: "(Almost) everything I know so far." So what's this book about? It's a light-hearted and funny take on how we learn important life stuff through ridiculous life situations and sometimes by heavily embarrassing ourselves. I especially appreciated it because it's obvious the author is an introverted, anxious overthinker like so many of us, and that part of her is shown through her writing and how she dealt with her problems. It helps that she has an amazing sense of humor 😂

 

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - Genre: Historical fiction

Everyone and their mother knows that I don't like historical fiction, ESPECIALLY war stories. Why? Because I find the future to be more exciting and because war stories always make me think about all the people that are actually going through (or went through) something similar in real life, which in turn makes me wanna cry and I don't wanna cry. If I'm gonna pick a historical fiction book to read, I'll usually turn to romance or fantasy because they are on the lighter side and don't usually have any real-life inspirations 😂

Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo - Genre: Manga

 While I don't put comics/manga in the same get-out-of-my-way category like nonfiction, it's also a format I don't often read. TBH I don't know why 😂 Maybe because I have so many books to read and other types of entertainment that I just didn't have the mental capacity + time to jump into this world as well. In any case, I loved Spy x Family and while it was my first ever manga, it's certainly not gonna be my last. 

💬 Which genres are out of your comfort zone? 💬