**The Spring Book Tag: How Books Pulled Me Out of My Reading Slump**

As we bid farewell to winter, many of us are eagerly awaiting the arrival of spring. For book lovers like myself, spring is a time for renewal and rejuvenation, both literally and figuratively. It's the perfect excuse to dust off our reading habits and dive into some new books that embody the warmth and sunshine of the season.

For me, one of those books was "It Was Kind of a Dark Time" by CJ Tudor. This atmospheric thriller was perfectly suited for a cold and dreary winter evening, but it just so happened to pull me out of my reading slump. I had been struggling to get into any books lately, but this one proved to be the perfect cure-all. It's no secret that we all go through periods where we feel like we're stuck in a rut, unable to muster up the enthusiasm to pick up a book. But sometimes, just the right book can come along and snap us out of it.

I've had my fair share of reading slumps over the years, but there's something about the end of the month that always seems to get me. As I sit down to film my wrap-up for the previous month, I often find myself feeling a little drained. It's as if I've already read all the books I'm going to read for the next month, and I just can't seem to muster up the energy to pick up another one. But despite this, I always try to push through. After all, what's a reading slump without a good book to get us out of it?

One of my favorite books that pulled me out of my reading slump was "House of the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Clune. This magical and whimsical tale is all about a young man who visits an orphanage on a magical island, where he discovers a world full of wonder and magic. The main character, one Linus Baker, is just so endearing that I couldn't help but want to spend time with him. He's like the ultimate introvert, who just wants to be left alone, but somehow ends up getting pulled into all sorts of adventures.

As for what makes a book perfect for spring, I think it's all about finding your tribe. For me, this means choosing a character whose friend group I would love to spend time with. Take the gang from "House of the Cerulean Sea", for example. They're like one big happy family, always getting into mischief and mayhem on their magical island home. It's just so easy to imagine myself as part of that crew.

Speaking of characters who know how to throw a good party, I've got to give a shout-out to Sookie from the Gilmore Girls. Who else could pack an epic picnic basket? Sookie's love of food and entertaining is just infectious, and I can totally see her whipping up some delicious dishes for a springtime picnic.

For those who prefer TV over books, I think it's no surprise that Lila from "A Cuban Girl's Guide to TN Tomorrow" by Laura Taylor Mamie would be the ultimate picnic basket packer. This young woman is like a culinary genius, and her love of cooking is just so inspiring. And let's not forget Blair from Kiss My Cupcake - who better to bring all the sweet treats than this cupcake-loving queen?

Last but certainly not least, I've got to mention "For Many Spring Is the First" by Emily Henry. This book is like a warm hug in written form. It's the perfect antidote to a long winter of darkness and cold, with its lighthearted and feel-good vibes.

**The Seasonal Book Tag**

For those who are interested, I'd love for you to join me in doing this seasonal book tag. Each month, we'll choose a different theme - spring, summer, autumn, and winter - and discuss our favorite books that fit the bill. Whether it's books that evoke feelings of sunshine and happiness or ones that explore themes of growth and renewal, I want to hear from you!

As for me, I'm excited to see what the next few months bring. While nothing can replace a good reading slump, I'm always up for a challenge. Who else is with me? Let's make this a thing, and share our favorite spring reads in the comments below.

**The Seasonal Book Tag Questions**

If you'd like to participate in the seasonal book tag, here are your questions:

* How do you choose a book that fits the theme of a particular season?

* What is one book that made you grow as a person?

* Choose a character who would pack the best picnic basket for spring.

* What's your favorite TV show or movie that evokes feelings of sunshine and happiness?

I'll be sharing more about my answers to these questions in future videos, so be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone it's heather here with your annual monthly book tag seasonal one of that we all know i love seasonal book tags i say that every single time i film attack and you guys still seem to enjoy the last tech video i was like i don't know why i keep filming these i feel like people don't don't like them but i got a lot of good feedback a lot of people are like no keep up with the tags i really enjoy them so you have spoken and i will continue to do them so today you guessed it is a spring tag because spring is finally here and my heart is so happy because i loathe winter with a passion like luckily where i live has not been that harsh for winter it snowed a couple times but there have been days during the winter season where it's been like 60 degrees and i'm like but either way i'm ready for winter to be gone and spring to be here for flowers to bloom and everything not to look so desolate again so yes so this is the splendid spring book tag which was created by victoria mann and i will link um the original track video down below as well as right up here and of course the questions as well first up we have everywhere you look flowers are blooming yay choose a book you love or think you will love what's flowers on the cover oh gosh um for this one i don't think i have a lot of books with flowers on the cover isn't that horrible i feel so horrible saying that maybe this one that has some flowers on the cover the dating plan by sarah desai and i really enjoy this book see all the flowers on it so there's one that i do enjoy so yeah it found one another one it's kind of the sequel to that one the singles table flowers all around it maybe on honeymooners has some flowers on it it does have some tropical flowers i do really enjoy this book sorry for the lighting it's like insanely cloudy outside so we have to really bump up the lighting today we like there's on a team it's just me and my husband sometimes um books that i think that i'll really enjoy i think there's one that has flowers in the cover i could be 100 wrong i'm planning to read it very soon it's full me once but ashley winstead i want to say that has flowers on the cover of it maybe also the bodyguard by katherine center has flowers on it i know there's so many other ones but i have really um unhauled a lot of books recently a lot of why e books if you want me to do a whole video on that because i really feel like i'm really truly now kind of grown out of the y a genre i i'm thinking about doing a video about that because i just i don't know i just feel like i've kind of anyway anyway moving on next up we have spring is the perfect time for a fun trip choose a book you've read or would like to read while traveling from one place to another one that i have read that i was like oh this is such a great travel book is paris is always a good idea by jen mckinley i read it a couple years ago and really had a good time with it it's about a girl that kind of goes back to revisit her like past loves there's like one in paris one in ireland and i think one in italy maybe but either way it was a very fun travel book that i highly recommend it's just super cute another one i've also read is 90 days to elsewhere by casey dyer this is about a girl that gets a job that has to recreate the around the world in 180 days is that the right title but either way it was very interesting that was both of them are very fun travel reads i read them both in 2020 when like nobody could travel really but i had a really good time like traveling within those books who doesn't love a good spring fling choose a book you were obsessed with for a short period of time but then you swiftly cast aside i i don't know for this one i really i can't think of like one that i was obsessed with it for a short time and then i cast it aside i uh i want to say honestly instructions for dancing by nicola yoon and hear me out on this one i love nicola yoon like the sun is also a star is one of my top favorite white books like i said i unhauled like eighty percent of my books this is one of them it's something i like unhaul pile but i kept the sun is also a star then i kept my favorites of favorites because i love that book so so much the audiobook is phenomenal this one when i read it i was like oh i really enjoy it but as time goes on i realize i'm like there wasn't enough to this book number one it was too short yeah it was less than 300 pages it could have had 150 to 100 more pages i felt like the characters weren't fully fleshed out like i didn't it could have been really really good so this is one that i really liked when i finished it but then as time goes on i'm like i'm not so sure anymore like i felt like i could have had more umph you know when you have those books where you read them you're like i really enjoy you but you could have been so much better if you just had a little bit more that's the only way it could describe it if you you feel me if you feel me everyone loves the smell of freshly mowed grass but not an ungodly choose a book that persifies as a middle-aged dad waking up at 7 a.m on saturday to mow the lawn when he should be sleeping like the rest of us i i don't know i'm just going to take this as one of my least favorite books for this i'm going to have to go with the wives by taryn fisher i read this couple years ago loved it also could be hidden bodies by carolyn kept as one of my easily two of my least favorite books of all time i loathe them i would guess i could consider them as like waking up at 7 a.m to a grass cutting session i don't know next up a surprise rain shower might spoil your outdoor fun but don't worry the sun will be back one could hope so because it's rained all day yesterday it's cloudy today choose a book that made you feel really sad but the sun still the sun still shines in the end for this one i can go with the night and go by kristen hannah you guys know it's my favorite book of all time it was immensely sad the ending was a little bit helpful but still quite sad another one is one true loves by taylor jacobs read also forever interrupted both of them are pretty sad but have a happier ending um another one oh you guys know one of my favorites float plan by trish dollar very sad but had like a very silver lining ending i don't read a ton of sad books i just i don't i do enjoy them when i read them but i have to be in the right headspace to read them if that makes any sense so i would have more i think but i just don't read as much as i i don't want to say i want to but i just you know how it is like if i read a sad book i'll get sad that's just how my mind works for some reason but those are ones that for like i love them and they were sad but they definitely had like kind of a silver lining at the end it's that time of year when all the animals stretch their limbs and come out of hibernation choose a book that pulled you out of a reading slump oh good one um what's the last i think the last reading slump i have was the very end of 2021 i was just like oh maybe it was the beginning of 2020. now i think it was near the end of 2021 i was like i'm kind of over all these holiday books i need to read like there's a good like two weeks where i didn't read anything what is the one book that got me out of it the book of cold cases by simone st james this one actually just came out and i had read it in december i really enjoyed it it was kind of a dark atmospheric thriller that was perfect to read in that kind of cold and dreary months um but it pulled me on my reading slump because i was in a deep one like i was like i don't want to read anything we all have those times i suffer through that a lot of the times the end of the month you know that last week when i don't know if it's just me youtuber problems or booktuber problems where i like i'm filming my wrap up and i've already done that so like i've put all the books i read that month so i can't read anything else in the next month but so i'm like in that kind of phase where i'm like am i gonna go into a slump while waiting or should i just read a book it's it's so stupid it's a stupid problem i have it's probably just me but that one definitely pulled me out of my slump it's all over exhale a sigh of relief knowing they get a break from school choose a book whose friend group you like to spend like to sprint like to spend spring break with easy easy easy easy i just finished this one the gang at house of the cerulean sea by tj clune oh my gosh i would love to hang out this group of kids they just sound so fun so awesome i love this one so much um this is basically about a guy that kind of goes and visits magical youth and he gets assigned to this orphanage where like all like kind of the really bad kids are but it's like there's a sweetest kid you have a garden gnome like a big green blob you have like the devil's son it's it sounds crazy but goodness me i would hang out with him any day of the week next up is spring is all about rebirth and blooming choose a book that made you grow as a person this one i'm choosing a non-fiction one that i just started it's called find your people by jenny allen it's a christian non-fiction fiction book i've read another book of hers get out your head which i really enjoyed this one's about finding your people finding your community which i've really been strong with that late recently since i've had my second child i've had like no socialization at all so this is really good for that i've just started this but i know it's definitely going to make me grow and be better as a person next up is a picnic at the park is the perfect springtime activity choose a book with a character who you think would pack the best picnic basket okay not book but tv related sookie from gilmore girls will always pack a great picnic lunch there's even an episode in gilmore girls where she packs this epic picnic basket lunch so if i had to choose heard it hands down right away another one i would choose lila from a cuban girl's guide to tn tomorrow by laura taylor mamie she is like an amazing cook like she loves cooking she lives in miami and she cooks this um cuban food i believe and it just sounds amazing so i would trust her to pack a picnic basket for me every day also blair from kiss my cupcake she like owns a cupcake shop so lila could like bring all like the really good stuff like you know the main appetizers and things like that and then blair could pack like the cupcakes like oh my gosh it'll be an epic picnic wouldn't it last up is for many spring is the first from a break of the bitterness of winter choose a book that is the embodiment of sunshine i don't mean to repeat myself but this one is literally the embodiment of sunshine when i was writing my little instagram review i think i wrote that i think i wrote like this book is a warm hug if you want a book that'll make you smile just feel like all the warm fuzzies this is the book for you like it's a great like adult fantasy that's not really fantasy if that makes any sense it is just really adorable so there you have the splendid spring book tag you guys know i like my seasonal tags trust me in a few months i'll be here at the summer tag because i am if nothing but routine is that the word i'm nothing if punctual i don't i don't know you get what i'm saying but either way i had to do a spring tag and there's always a new one every year and i always love to do but either way like i said if you want to do this tag i'll leave all the questions down below as well as the original tag video and yeah who else is happy to see winter go and for flowers to come out and birds to come out like so so happy thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video byehello everyone it's heather here with your annual monthly book tag seasonal one of that we all know i love seasonal book tags i say that every single time i film attack and you guys still seem to enjoy the last tech video i was like i don't know why i keep filming these i feel like people don't don't like them but i got a lot of good feedback a lot of people are like no keep up with the tags i really enjoy them so you have spoken and i will continue to do them so today you guessed it is a spring tag because spring is finally here and my heart is so happy because i loathe winter with a passion like luckily where i live has not been that harsh for winter it snowed a couple times but there have been days during the winter season where it's been like 60 degrees and i'm like but either way i'm ready for winter to be gone and spring to be here for flowers to bloom and everything not to look so desolate again so yes so this is the splendid spring book tag which was created by victoria mann and i will link um the original track video down below as well as right up here and of course the questions as well first up we have everywhere you look flowers are blooming yay choose a book you love or think you will love what's flowers on the cover oh gosh um for this one i don't think i have a lot of books with flowers on the cover isn't that horrible i feel so horrible saying that maybe this one that has some flowers on the cover the dating plan by sarah desai and i really enjoy this book see all the flowers on it so there's one that i do enjoy so yeah it found one another one it's kind of the sequel to that one the singles table flowers all around it maybe on honeymooners has some flowers on it it does have some tropical flowers i do really enjoy this book sorry for the lighting it's like insanely cloudy outside so we have to really bump up the lighting today we like there's on a team it's just me and my husband sometimes um books that i think that i'll really enjoy i think there's one that has flowers in the cover i could be 100 wrong i'm planning to read it very soon it's full me once but ashley winstead i want to say that has flowers on the cover of it maybe also the bodyguard by katherine center has flowers on it i know there's so many other ones but i have really um unhauled a lot of books recently a lot of why e books if you want me to do a whole video on that because i really feel like i'm really truly now kind of grown out of the y a genre i i'm thinking about doing a video about that because i just i don't know i just feel like i've kind of anyway anyway moving on next up we have spring is the perfect time for a fun trip choose a book you've read or would like to read while traveling from one place to another one that i have read that i was like oh this is such a great travel book is paris is always a good idea by jen mckinley i read it a couple years ago and really had a good time with it it's about a girl that kind of goes back to revisit her like past loves there's like one in paris one in ireland and i think one in italy maybe but either way it was a very fun travel book that i highly recommend it's just super cute another one i've also read is 90 days to elsewhere by casey dyer this is about a girl that gets a job that has to recreate the around the world in 180 days is that the right title but either way it was very interesting that was both of them are very fun travel reads i read them both in 2020 when like nobody could travel really but i had a really good time like traveling within those books who doesn't love a good spring fling choose a book you were obsessed with for a short period of time but then you swiftly cast aside i i don't know for this one i really i can't think of like one that i was obsessed with it for a short time and then i cast it aside i uh i want to say honestly instructions for dancing by nicola yoon and hear me out on this one i love nicola yoon like the sun is also a star is one of my top favorite white books like i said i unhauled like eighty percent of my books this is one of them it's something i like unhaul pile but i kept the sun is also a star then i kept my favorites of favorites because i love that book so so much the audiobook is phenomenal this one when i read it i was like oh i really enjoy it but as time goes on i realize i'm like there wasn't enough to this book number one it was too short yeah it was less than 300 pages it could have had 150 to 100 more pages i felt like the characters weren't fully fleshed out like i didn't it could have been really really good so this is one that i really liked when i finished it but then as time goes on i'm like i'm not so sure anymore like i felt like i could have had more umph you know when you have those books where you read them you're like i really enjoy you but you could have been so much better if you just had a little bit more that's the only way it could describe it if you you feel me if you feel me everyone loves the smell of freshly mowed grass but not an ungodly choose a book that persifies as a middle-aged dad waking up at 7 a.m on saturday to mow the lawn when he should be sleeping like the rest of us i i don't know i'm just going to take this as one of my least favorite books for this i'm going to have to go with the wives by taryn fisher i read this couple years ago loved it also could be hidden bodies by carolyn kept as one of my easily two of my least favorite books of all time i loathe them i would guess i could consider them as like waking up at 7 a.m to a grass cutting session i don't know next up a surprise rain shower might spoil your outdoor fun but don't worry the sun will be back one could hope so because it's rained all day yesterday it's cloudy today choose a book that made you feel really sad but the sun still the sun still shines in the end for this one i can go with the night and go by kristen hannah you guys know it's my favorite book of all time it was immensely sad the ending was a little bit helpful but still quite sad another one is one true loves by taylor jacobs read also forever interrupted both of them are pretty sad but have a happier ending um another one oh you guys know one of my favorites float plan by trish dollar very sad but had like a very silver lining ending i don't read a ton of sad books i just i don't i do enjoy them when i read them but i have to be in the right headspace to read them if that makes any sense so i would have more i think but i just don't read as much as i i don't want to say i want to but i just you know how it is like if i read a sad book i'll get sad that's just how my mind works for some reason but those are ones that for like i love them and they were sad but they definitely had like kind of a silver lining at the end it's that time of year when all the animals stretch their limbs and come out of hibernation choose a book that pulled you out of a reading slump oh good one um what's the last i think the last reading slump i have was the very end of 2021 i was just like oh maybe it was the beginning of 2020. now i think it was near the end of 2021 i was like i'm kind of over all these holiday books i need to read like there's a good like two weeks where i didn't read anything what is the one book that got me out of it the book of cold cases by simone st james this one actually just came out and i had read it in december i really enjoyed it it was kind of a dark atmospheric thriller that was perfect to read in that kind of cold and dreary months um but it pulled me on my reading slump because i was in a deep one like i was like i don't want to read anything we all have those times i suffer through that a lot of the times the end of the month you know that last week when i don't know if it's just me youtuber problems or booktuber problems where i like i'm filming my wrap up and i've already done that so like i've put all the books i read that month so i can't read anything else in the next month but so i'm like in that kind of phase where i'm like am i gonna go into a slump while waiting or should i just read a book it's it's so stupid it's a stupid problem i have it's probably just me but that one definitely pulled me out of my slump it's all over exhale a sigh of relief knowing they get a break from school choose a book whose friend group you like to spend like to sprint like to spend spring break with easy easy easy easy i just finished this one the gang at house of the cerulean sea by tj clune oh my gosh i would love to hang out this group of kids they just sound so fun so awesome i love this one so much um this is basically about a guy that kind of goes and visits magical youth and he gets assigned to this orphanage where like all like kind of the really bad kids are but it's like there's a sweetest kid you have a garden gnome like a big green blob you have like the devil's son it's it sounds crazy but goodness me i would hang out with him any day of the week next up is spring is all about rebirth and blooming choose a book that made you grow as a person this one i'm choosing a non-fiction one that i just started it's called find your people by jenny allen it's a christian non-fiction fiction book i've read another book of hers get out your head which i really enjoyed this one's about finding your people finding your community which i've really been strong with that late recently since i've had my second child i've had like no socialization at all so this is really good for that i've just started this but i know it's definitely going to make me grow and be better as a person next up is a picnic at the park is the perfect springtime activity choose a book with a character who you think would pack the best picnic basket okay not book but tv related sookie from gilmore girls will always pack a great picnic lunch there's even an episode in gilmore girls where she packs this epic picnic basket lunch so if i had to choose heard it hands down right away another one i would choose lila from a cuban girl's guide to tn tomorrow by laura taylor mamie she is like an amazing cook like she loves cooking she lives in miami and she cooks this um cuban food i believe and it just sounds amazing so i would trust her to pack a picnic basket for me every day also blair from kiss my cupcake she like owns a cupcake shop so lila could like bring all like the really good stuff like you know the main appetizers and things like that and then blair could pack like the cupcakes like oh my gosh it'll be an epic picnic wouldn't it last up is for many spring is the first from a break of the bitterness of winter choose a book that is the embodiment of sunshine i don't mean to repeat myself but this one is literally the embodiment of sunshine when i was writing my little instagram review i think i wrote that i think i wrote like this book is a warm hug if you want a book that'll make you smile just feel like all the warm fuzzies this is the book for you like it's a great like adult fantasy that's not really fantasy if that makes any sense it is just really adorable so there you have the splendid spring book tag you guys know i like my seasonal tags trust me in a few months i'll be here at the summer tag because i am if nothing but routine is that the word i'm nothing if punctual i don't i don't know you get what i'm saying but either way i had to do a spring tag and there's always a new one every year and i always love to do but either way like i said if you want to do this tag i'll leave all the questions down below as well as the original tag video and yeah who else is happy to see winter go and for flowers to come out and birds to come out like so so happy thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video bye\n"