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Recently, (more like the last six months or so, but hey, who's counting?) I've had a hard time reading. Not necessarily that I couldn't read or didn't want to. I DESPERATELY WANT TO. But what happens when you've been oversaturated with so many amazing books that other books start to seem blah?
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It’s not a reading slump, only that there isn’t much in my reading that is sparking my interest lately. I loved Ongoingness and I am reading Notes from Walnut Tree Farm and loving that too. But the fiction, it’s not doing it for me lately. It’s not that any of the novels I am in the middle of are especially bad, I’m just not interested in them. It’s me, not them. Mostly. I have about eighty pages of Dance with Dragons (book five in the Game of Thrones series) left and thank goodness for that because between it and the TV show of it airing right now I am burnt out on it and finding it increasingly difficult to care what might happen next.
Also, I have so many other things to occupy my time right now that anything less than stellar feels precariously close to a waste of time. Why read something mediocre when I could be out working in my garden? Why read a novel with a plodding pace when I could be zipping down a bike path on Astrid? Maybe I am just grumpy this evening because it is windy out and my allergies are bothering me and as a result I am not going on my first real group bike ride and will have to wait until next Wednesday to join.
Whatever the reason, I have the reading blahs. It is the second time this year, the first time was in January/February. I’ve gone two or three years without having the blahs and then it’s happened twice already in one year. What’s up with that?
Maybe if I’m having trouble with fiction I should just stick with nonfiction and not worry about it, just wait for my fiction slump to pass, which it will eventually. Maybe I just need to start a different novel to add something fresh to the mix? I dunno.
I got an email from the library that Lumberjanes is waiting for me to pick up. It is a graphic novel that has gotten lots of raves and looks like fun. Perhaps that will help me over the slump hump and get me back on the fiction trail? I just have to get myself to the library tomorrow or Friday. And then, well, I hope it’s as good as people have been saying it is. I’ll let you know! Until then, I suppose I will just keep going with what I’m in the middle of however unenthusiastic I am about it at the moment (wow is that ever and Eeyore thing to say!).
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I am in. I've tried reading several different books now and just get that 'blah' feeling. Not from the books, just from me. It's like I feel burnt out or something. I haven't been feeling 100%, so maybe that has something to do with it. I am reading Heather Duffy Stone's book (and I owe her an e-mail!), but it's taking longer than it really should considering it's not that long of a book. I
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I've felt like that before... just go do something fun other than read. If you don't think about how you "need" to read for a while (maybe a week or so), pretty soon you'll find yourself wanting to read again :) hopefully. haha.
Yes, that's a familiar feeling, it happens every now and then when I read too much. I just need a pause, do something else, forget about books for a few days ... :)
I've felt like that many times before. It'll pass and then you won't be able to stop reading.
I feel like this often. Especially when I have books that I HAVE to review, but am not really interested in the book at the time. Makes me not want to read at all lol.
I felt that just today (for a little while) after finishing off probably a third of The Singing: The Fourth Book of Pellinor. Distract yourself with something else; maybe you just need time to digest the wonderful books you've read recently.
I think everyone feels like this at some point. Sometimes you just have to give yourself a break.
I get this when I'm reading books too fast or when I've read too many of one genre for a while. Usually the remedy is a great book that's a bit different and savouring it slowly.
I get this all the time, thanks to school, and I hate it! I have SO many books to read, yet nothing looks appealing and I can't start anything. I agree with H, I get it when I read too much of the same genre. Annoying....Good luck! If you need a recommendation, I just finished Regina Scott's La Petite Four and loved it!
Ooh. I am totally IN LOVE with this new layout. Where'd ya get it?I hit the slumps too sometimes. Actually, since I started reading YA again about 3 years ago I haven't been able to get into many Adult Fic books at all. I've grown used to all of the immediate gratification. It's like crack!When I am switching gears (especially after a particularly intense read), I like to enjoy what I call a "
Yeah. I'm going through that now. But it could be because I have the winter doldrums.
Aw, i'm sorry Laura.That's never fun. I have gotten that way. Sometimes you just need to relax and not focus on reading for a bit...then when you go back, it might be easier to jump in and enjoy reading again!-Lauren
I think I'm having the same problem with Change Of Heart. Hopefully it'll pass really soon.
Hope you get out of your slump soon! :)
Sometimes I feel that way but not often... I am sorry you feel that way right now, it is a very terrible feeling.-Senfaye