I'm having the hardest time getting into books right now. Last night I wrote an email to a friend about what I'm reading, and realized that I have FOUR books in progress right now, and that's very rare for me. I started every one of them fully intending to finish, but put all of them down in the middle, for one reason or another. (One of them is pseudo-homework, so it will absolutely get finished, just not right now.) It's probably not a coincidence that all of them are genres that I don't normally read; when I do pick up a romance, cozy mystery or an alternative history, I finish it. I finished a crazy romance novel last night.
I think I hit this point about once a month, maybe more often, and I'm not really sure why. It's possible that I'm reading too much, and I'm full to saturation. Or I need something way more compelling right now. I speculated in my email last night that I really need to read a book by one of my favorite authors, but the only author on that list that has a book coming out, that I know of, is Diana Gabaldon, and her new book doesn't come out until September 27. I've been hanging out at Amazon, looking through the upcoming releases, popular pre-orders, and looking up all my favorite authors, but to no avail.
Losing interest in reading feels like losing interest in life, in some ways. I'm just so in love with the written word normally that when I have to sit on the bed in front of my bookcase for hours looking for a book, it's baaaad. Normally, I have an organized idea of what I'm going to be reading after my current book. It's a little plan in my head, and it usually works out. I think it de-railed when I didn't finish the first book, and then the three piled up and really left me drowning. I'm not sure other readers have these little crises, but again, it happens about once a month for me. My solution this time is to go back and re-read something that I felt deserved a better, more intensive reading. I know I like it, see, and hopefully that will keep me reading it.
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