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Oda wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Storm wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Storm wrote: "Oda wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Oda wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I have been fighting a reading slump for some time. I think it's because there ar..."Lol!!! That's great!! I love it :-)
I'm stressed too :( I have three books going. And I have to read and review another one before July 1st. Normally that wouldn't be a problem at all, but I don't know, it feels like I have to read all the time and whenever I'm not reading, like now, I feel kind of guilty. The result is that on not reading anything at all. Sigh
I'm getting book depression and stress again. Trying to read too many at once and not the ones I want to read. Sigh. I hate this feeling. Books are SUPPOSED TO BE FUN!
I have been in a slump for a little over two weeks. It's super frustrating because I want to read but every time I pick up a book I get somewhere between 15-50 pages in and then get bored. It's not that any of the books are bad necessarily but my focus is just not there.
I hate when we get this way. I'm trying to read 10 at once again and it's getting to me. I want to read certain books and I'm not able to get to them from arcs and library books. Now I'm down and tired of it. I want fun in books again. I hope you get out of your slumps too Heather :(
Sorry about your reading slumps Heather and Melissa. Been there and hate it. :( I find the only thing that helps me is finding a book that grabs my attention right away and that I have a hard time putting down. But, that's not always easy to find. I'm sure you'll find your way out, but don't put any pressure on yourselves to read things...reading is about enjoying, relaxing and getting lost in a great story.
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I'm doing the same thing! :(
Karen wrote: "Heather wrote: "I have been in a slump for a little over two weeks. It's super frustrating because I want to read but every time I pick up a book I get somewhere between 15-50 pages in and then get..."I had that happen to me a while ago and it truly sucked. I couldn't read anything for weeks! What worked for me was that I stopped reading for a while. Didn't even try and then started again with some of my old favourites. I'm now reading at least 2-4 books a month so I'm getting back in the swing of things. ^-^
Thanks Melissa, Donna and Bookbuyer! I am just starting to fall out of my slump and hoping it sticks. I have a busy weekend ahead of me so that will be the real test. Good luck Karen! I hope you overcome your slump.
I am having a horrible book slump! or a book rut. I read something for maybe a chapter and it doesn't feel like i want to read it nor do i know what i want to read.
MADISON: Im totally in the same boat as you. I havent read properly for months now and ive been forcing myself to read.I know that i have been trying to start new books, but it never goes past the first few chapters. Nothing wants to stick.
I just try to re-read books I've read and love.
I don't feel like I'm in a reading slump, not really. I just don't feel like reading. I'd much rather do anything else - like puzzles and just sitting with my tablet and wasting time. I know that if I picked up a book, I'd just read it, so it's not like a regular slump. I just don't want to read. I've read 1½ book this month - last month I read 21! So yeah. Anyone else ever feel like that? :)
The last few books free kindle books that I have gotten haven't impressed me. I just stop reading and move on.
Do you ever get in the mood to just ditch all the books you are reading & start something completely different because you're just not in the mood?? Ugh....I hate that but I'm such a mood reader and I fear that's what's coming! I always go back to the books I ditched later and finished them but this drives me nuts about myself!!!!
Rose (littlebookowl75) wrote: "Do you ever get in the mood to just ditch all the books you are reading & start something completely different because you're just not in the mood?? Ugh....I hate that but I'm such a mood reader an..."That is totally me! I usually have a few books going on at once anyway but sometimes I have to put a book down and read another.
Bookbuyer wrote: "Rose (littlebookowl75) wrote: "Do you ever get in the mood to just ditch all the books you are reading & start something completely different because you're just not in the mood?? Ugh....I hate tha..."I usually have at least two books going at a time too! I usually binge on one genre for a while and then all of the sudden I decide I'm not in the mood and I will put down the book I'm reading and read something entirely different for a few books and then go back to the book I put down. I don't want to force myself to read something just to read it. I want to enjoy what I'm reading.
I usually don't change genres really. Sometimes I'll change from YA to Adult but otherwise all my books are pretty similar. In the past 6 months I've been doing a lot of challenges so that's dictated a lot of what I've been reading. >.>
@Bookbuyer I meant that I will usually fantasy binge YA books for a while and then have to change to dystopian or NA romance or historical fiction YA :)
I was feeling the same. Then today I started to read a book I've been meaning to read since I got it at Christmas. SUCH a freaking relief.
@Storm I think I have two problems, binge reading one genre for too long, & wanting to read what others are reading instead of what I want to read! Starting today, I'm going to pick up what I want to read from my shelf, not read something just because others are reading it! I'm still on the Harry Potter read-a-long, which I'm enjoying, but am going to pick up Timebound, a time travel book I've been meaning to read forever!!!
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Yay @Karen! I've had both Timebound and Time's Edge on my shelf forever and it's time I read them!
Okay, I'm slumping...I'm reading 3 meh books at the same time and a chunkster that I'm just not feeling. And I just got done reading 2 raunchy books, a romantic suspense and a funny sexy book, and it was too much, so now I'm afraid to read romance unless it's YA, cuz I'm tired of sex...lol.
Okay, I have the weirdest reading problem. I read a book that I didn't realize was erotica and the humorous book that I was listening to at the same time also had some sexy scenes. So now, I'm so done with sex in my books. I'm reading a historical fiction that has the occasional sex scene and a vampire book where she stumbles on a couple having a moment and my book club book's sex scenes aren't very graphic but the husband is a horn dog so he's always thinking about it or acting on it, and I want to stop reading all of them. So my reading slump is finding interesting sexless books. I'm thinking maybe middle school or murder mystery books. (I don't like cozy mysteries.) I'm even afraid of YA paranormal...sigh. And I'm not usually opposed to a sex scene or two, but it was too much and too graphic overload.
Marla wrote: "Okay, I have the weirdest reading problem. I read a book that I didn't realize was erotica and the humorous book that I was listening to at the same time also had some sexy scenes. So now, I'm so d..."
Try:
No sex in there at all.Or
its ya but no sex and not really that much romance.
Try:
No sex in there at all.Or
its ya but no sex and not really that much romance.
Thanks Oda, I'll try those. I'm still not wanting much sex in my books. I've read a couple of middle school books and some sci fi. But it seems like every YA I pick up has sex in it. I'm surprised at how much sex is normally in books.
I'm having trouble with Ender's Game.
Serena wrote: "I'm having trouble with Ender's Game."I wasn't a huge fan of that book, either. I had high expectations for it since it's so famous, but I found it really dry. :-/
Help I'm having a reading slump and it have been 3 months sense I read a book. Every time I want to read but my mind wont focus and I wont able to understand anything.
I've been in a major slump and haven't read a page in almost a week :'(
@aliza and Sharina
have you tried rereading faves?
or picking up a very fast paced book?
tried a middle grade?
I recomend:
have you tried rereading faves?
or picking up a very fast paced book?
tried a middle grade?
I recomend:
I'm actually on tube hunt for something really funny and cute because those always get me right back on track.
sorry for the typo... it's late where I live ;)
I agree with Oda that re-reading can help get you out of a slump! Or reading a novella or a graphic novel or something, since they're shorter. :)
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I agree, rereading and novellas is what I do. Also when I have a book hangover.
Aliza wrote: "I'm actually on tube hunt for something really funny and cute because those always get me right back on track."
3 out of 4 of my suggestions were funny and cute.
3 out of 4 of my suggestions were funny and cute.
When I'm in a reading slump I tend to reread some of my favorites like, 
Here are some more suggestions,
I hope you find something that helps!
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I haven't finished a book in over two months....quite pathetic but I was majorly stressing studying for my Pharmacy Tech Certification test, BUT I passed and I'm now certified!!!!! I'm hoping that will end my reading slump as my stress is gone! On a good note,I'm about 250 pages into my re-read of Throne of Glass! Oh, how I've missed Celaena and my babes Chaol and Dorian!
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Yay Rose!!! Congrats! :)
Congrats Rose, that's amazing!! :D Hope you overcome your reading slump soon!
I've also been in quite a slump these past couple months. July has been insanely busy for me, but I also have just not had the motivation to read lately. :( Every time I pick up a book I can only pay attention for like five minutes. I think I'm just more tired than usual, and I've been devoting my attention to other things (I've been doing a lot of art recently, for example!). I'm starting to fall behind on my yearly goal which I'm kinda upset about. But hopefully I'll get back on track in August.
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Ohmygosh, Brigid... Me too!! Everytime I pick up my Nook, I'm so exhausted, it's all I can do to read more than a few chapters. I HAVE been on vacation for almost 3 weeks and doing a crazy road trip. I just got back tonight and my friend leaves on Saturday so after I sleep all weekend, I hope I can finally read more than a few chapters a day.
The only good thing is that I listened to 4 audiobooks while driving. But they were all rereads of favorite books. I'm 7 books behind right now, :( I've never been more than a couple of books behind before.
I really need to get back that feeling of not being able to put a book down!!
Irene wrote: "I don't feel like I'm in a reading slump, not really. I just don't feel like reading. I'd much rather do anything else - like puzzles and just sitting with my tablet and wasting time. I know that i..."
I know late answer,but I do that as well.
I think we as readers should remember its okay not not read sometimes as well doesent make us bad Readers. Just humans.
I love to do jigsawpuzzles as well.
Also I find that after Reading breakes,long ones I read tons when I start again. And it is, fun to be social once every now and then #gasp# yes I knooow. But doing Movie marathons some weekends, and go quizzing etc etc.
I know late answer,but I do that as well.
I think we as readers should remember its okay not not read sometimes as well doesent make us bad Readers. Just humans.
I love to do jigsawpuzzles as well.
Also I find that after Reading breakes,long ones I read tons when I start again. And it is, fun to be social once every now and then #gasp# yes I knooow. But doing Movie marathons some weekends, and go quizzing etc etc.
I wound up playing a ton of video games with my gal pals the last couple of months... I finished a couple of books but nothing monumental... Kind of cringing at how far behind I am. I have no idea what to read right now.
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I did a few binge tv show marathons. ;)
And......I'm out of my reading slump just like that!!! Almost finished with Throne of Glass and its brought my book love back! I have missed Celaena and Chaol and Dorian! I've also made good progress on HP and The Goblet of Fire!
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True,true. What I end up doing is reading instead of sleeping now and then :) great way to read more. Because I read in the day as well.