Does anyone know if there is a word (in any language) for the sadness or emptiness one feels after finishing a book or series of books?
Does anyone know if there is a word (in any language) for the sadness or emptiness one feels after finishing a book or series of books?
Not specifially books… saudade
What language?
Portuguese
That just means sad right?
“a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return.”
yes. That is the right emotion then.
Life??? Lol
Wasn’t trying to be ugly. It seems I live in this state. Is there a cure?
I don’t think there is a cure. Every time I finish a story I’m like “Oh f*** back to the real world where there are politicians, and school shootings, and war, and blah, blah, blah,….”
So then I go back to reading and try to forget for a little while longer how much everything sucks.
Me too…I’m down to one book and the library is closed today…I’m reading slow 😉
Post partum depression
Graduation day 😩
Book hangover
I’m glad to hear it isn’t only me. I really felt this after finishing The assassins fate.
Book hangover!
I just finished the Wheel of Time for the second full read through and my first thought is if Harriet McDougal would want Brandon Sanderson to write more in the 4th age…