Hi everyone! It's Clarisse, this is ClarisseReads
and today I'm going to talk a bit about
reading more diverse science fiction and
fantasy books. As you may know, I decided
not to set yearly reading goals but
instead try to set more specific
quarterly reading goals. And I'm still
sticking with that, but even though I'm
doing that there are still some reading
goals that are more general that I do
want to prioritize - not necessarily for
the year, but just right now, for some
undefined period of time - and one of
those goals is to read more diverse
science fiction and fantasy. Well, the
first part probably makes sense to you; a
lot of people on Booktube have been wanting
to read more diversely - I mean to
DiverseAThon is a thing, and I think it's
going to be happening when this video goes up -
and that's something I want to strive towards
generally. But the reason that I'm trying
to read diverse science fiction and
fantasy specifically...well, I think that has
bit of a longer explanation. Recently, when
I was trying to reflect a bit on my
reading goals in 2016, and things
that went well, things that went wrong - I
did make those videos, but there were
some thing I noticed that I wasn't able
to mention in those videos. Specifically
for my "Read the World" goal. As I mentioned in
the video when I talked about the results of
that reading goal, I was pretty proud of
what I was able to accomplish, and I'm
still pretty proud of it.
But something I forgot to mention is that even
though I read from so many different
countries
last year I don't think any of the books
I read from my "Read the World" goal made
it to my "Favorites of 2016" video - like I
tried to read more diversely, but my favorites
videos still didn't end up being all
that diverse. I tried to figure out, why is that?
Am I just naturally biased towards things
that aren't diverse without me even trying
to be biased? Then I realized there was
something wrong with my mindset when it
came to reading more diverse books.
When I pick books to read in
general, I normally gravitate towards
science fiction and fantasy, because I
know that those are my favorite genres.
But when I was trying to pick books for,
example my "Read the World" challenge last year,
I was picking books that were rated really
highly, books that were recommended by
my friends...and I don't think there's
anything wrong with that, but I do want
reading diversely to become something
normal, to become something natural.
And I don't think that's going to happen if I
continue to have this disconnect
between how I choose books to read in
general and how I choose books to read
that are diverse. I wasn't unimpressed by my
"Read the World" books because they were
from other countries, but because I
wasn't picking them the way I was picking
books normally. I wasn't picking them
with the same filters. I wasn't picking
books that I thought I WOULD enjoy, but
instead I was picking books that I thought I
SHOULD enjoy, and I think there's
something wrong with that.
So now, for again, some undefined period
of time, I want to try to focus more on
reading diversely, but also reading
books from the genres I love, and
knowing that those two things aren't
separate, I don't need to think of them [as] separate,
I don't need to pick diverse books
differently from the way I pick normal books.
So I'm hoping by the end of the year my
favorites video is going to be a lot more
diverse, I'm hoping that as I progress
with this channel I'm going to be
able to share books that other people
aren't talking about, and, most
importantly, I hope that reading
diversely eventually becomes something
that I don't need to consciously do but
instead becomes something that I
naturally gravitate towards doing. So that's all I
have to say about that,
I guess. Sorry if it was a bit ramble-y; normally for videos I try
to write a bit of an outline first, but I was actually filming
something completely different when I
suddenly went off on a tangent and started
talking about this, so I figured I might as well
make it a completely different video. So if
you have any thoughts on this, or on reading diversely
in general, feel free to share it with me in the comment
section below. Also feel free to share with me any of
the diverse science fiction or fantasy books that you think I should read
also down below. Anyway, thank you so
much for watching, and I hope to see you next time. Bye!
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