The Bookish Mindset

While I absolutely love Bookstagram and BookTok, they become a bit much sometimes. They’re both great places for community and connection, for finding new authors and new book recommendations. Not to mention the lifelong friends as well! But some times, it can get a bit much and I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling like this!

It’s so easy to get dragged into social media, with the endless doom scrolling getting FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) from proof copies of books, or trying to keep up with the latest reads. It’s unrelenting.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can keep our reading hobby easy and stress free. We can break free from the chokehold that social media has on us!

Here’s what I’m reminding myself:

Read what you want to read, not what everyone else is. It sounds so easy in principle, but I find myself often feeling like I’m missing out on books that I know I won’t enjoy, just because they keep popping up on my feed. Just because everyone else loves it, it doesn’t mean you have to read it right now, or at all if it’s topic is just not for you.

Read at your pace. It’s too easy to get sucked into the content creating machine that is social media. I’m reminding myself to read for pleasure and post for other readers, not the algorithm. It’s too easy to try to speed through books just to post about them on a certain day. And readers love a book review, keep posting them! I refuse to believe book reviews are dead!

Use your libraries. Do you remember how much you loved going to the library as a kid? You can still be that excited and carry even more books, and ours don’t have late fees anymore! Some even have an easy app to make book browsing even easier. They’re still free and they even support authors despite you not buying the books.

Is this resonating with you? Drop me a comment and let me know!

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Last updated 21/04/2026