back into reading 2026
Slipping back into reading always feels weird at first. Like riding a bike after 10 years of not touching one. Once you get into it, though, it all comes back.
For me, easing my way into a story (or a narrative, if it is non-fiction) is easy.
The rest of the world fades away, the money worries, the job stressors. Everything.
And now I am in this world. I am the office worker in Tokyo who really likes melon buns (Hooked - Asako Yuzuki). I am the dude who wakes up in the spaceship not remembering who he is (Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir), or the soldier numbed by war who falls in love with a nurse (A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway).
I am not me. I am not turning 39. I am not depressed or anxious. I am not disappointing myself with my performance at work.
I am everyone and anyone.
My brain frees itself from the mortal container.
And don't even get me started when my brain is on high fantasy.