The Unreadability Logjam

I love to read. I'm an inveterate reader from way way back, as far back as I can recall: iow, since from the time I learned to read I've loved the experience of reading, which is both relaxing and pleasurable for me (as opposed to work). I love fiction in that low-brow escapist way which I suppose is looked down upon by some, but I don't care about that.

Anyway, every once in a while I hit a dry spell where I just cannot read fiction. It normally doesn't last long, perhaps a month or two, but