Burned out from reading too many books

[Vixen201]

First of all, I want to say Happy Memorial Day to those who gave their lives & are currently serving our country; GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am burned out from reading books. I set a reading goal up back at the first of year on Goodreads.com . The reading goal was to read 50 books this year. I have already read 41 books. Attempted to start reading today "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie. I just can't get my mind to focus to read the book. Every Monday, I had plan to post on my Blog what I was going to read but I am burned out from reading. I guess that I have read too many books too fast. I read everything from the gruesome "The Messiah"( my favorite book) by Boris Starling to the Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke. I haven't brainstorm/freewrite for my first crime novel since April 12th. Still have 9 short stories to re-read; edit & re-write & haven't worked on those in a month. So I decided to take a week off from reading books so that my mind can be reset back in the reading mode. I am going to focus on my writing , hopefully starting tomorrow. Please feel free to drop & offer your comments or suggestions on what you do when you get burned out from reading books or how you get your focus back on writing or both. Thanks :-)

[J.T.K.]

Best to take that break! Even sitting down with paper and pencil and just writing the first thing that comes to mind can help. Sounds like you have a lot "stored up" and need to let some of it out!