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Nora (Grayson's version)
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Feb 16, 2024 08:13AM
I've been reading the same book for almost a month now. Help.
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Is it because you don’t look forward to reading the book or because not enough time…?
Try to find the book you are reading in audio version. If that doesn't work, there is no shame in "DNF"!! Pick up something else. Manga usually helps me feel like I've accomplished a lot too.
I started a book in august /23/ 2023 I finished it two days ago the book was good excellent .it was short but I couldn't concentrate on a word .I kept repeating the same phrases .I kept forgetting what page i was reading ....
an awfull reading slump
then I discovered audio books
sooooo try audiobook
or try reading everyday few pages till u finish it
You should ditch that book but then read something short afterwards because, if you’re a reading fanatic, you’ll be CRAVING something more to read and thus pulling you out of your slump.
I enjoy a reading "break" as per slump now and then. I don't make myself feel pressured unnecessarily to read when I don't feel like it. It's rare, but happens time to time. 2023 I didn't read as much as I usual do, big gaps, and I didn't stress about it. I had other creative endeavors to inspire me and subject matter I wanted to learn about in other forms that I embraced instead.Typically what motivates me to read though is ensuring my shelf is arranged properly. How I prefer is by seasons, to get me into the mood. I arrange my shelves by spring, summer, autumn, winter... I line them up accordingly. Even then, I will sometimes read Christmas themes for "Christmas in July."
I also watch some YouTubers whom have similar tastes as me that I enjoy.
Changing up the routine. Where I typically have a book going on amongst the 3 formats, as in a hardback, paperback, and audio at one time. Where I choose different genres from each so I don't mix plots/similar tropes too much, typically I reserve audio for non-fiction and such.
I also ensure my books are readily available. Having the stack of TBRs prioritized in a stack across the room from my sitting chair or in summer, my "pool bag" so one is visible and ready to go.
I also like to change up genres (although I'm an eclectic reader anyway), where I will even pick up a cookbook or short book to feel more accomplished because I am either doing something else like "cooking" and "reading" two-for-one and, as the accomplishment feels compelling for me to keep going if I've at least read a short book.
If it's a book I really don't enjoy... DNF. I don't like to DNF but I've learned to skim and speed read, so it's a bit of finishing but not fully immersed or engaged or designating too much energy expenditure to read as to how I normally would with a book that I love.
There are just too many other great books out there to waste time on one you don't enjoy. On that note though, sometimes I'll just put that one away and start another, then see how I feel about picking it up later.
I have been an avid reader for years now but suddenly even I'm in a reading slump. I feel the content back then was so much better than what we get now in the romance section. Yes, if it is a combination of romance with thriller/ fantasy they are much better otherwise they try adding in some steamy scenes with the same plot or one of the characters is toxic!
Oh, how I wish to experience a reading slump just once to have time for my other hobbies!But in 62 years of avid reading I never experienced one.
As a matter of fact, I worry not to have another 26,5 years of life left (like my 95 year old mother who still reads more than I do) in order to read the many books that I own, but still have not read (not to speak of the many books that I own that I would love to read again).
A kingdom for more time!
Chrissie
Ria wrote: "I have been an avid reader for years now but suddenly even I'm in a reading slump. I feel the content back then was so much better than what we get now in the romance section. Yes, if it is a combi..."This is exactly what I feel happens to the publishing house industry over the past 20+ years. - In hindsight I'm soooo very glad that I didn't listen to my parents and my German friends and colleagues who tried to talk me into selling all 3.000+ books that I used to own. I sold 1.500 books, kept 1.500 books and immigrated with them in 2002 to the US.
And shortly after that I've noticed that new novels were getting more and more mediocre starting with the invention of Harry Potter (I tried to read volume 1, but never got hooked), nowadays it's almost all fantasy and dystopian, the crime novels got way too graphic for my taste, there are less and less interesting (auto)biographies, the movie books no longer are what they used to be (exception: books on film noir are still pretty good) and the best romance novels were already written some 20+ years ago.
Is this a sign of aging or am I right about the publishing houses? More and more books by South-American and Asian authors are published (I'm simply not interested in those) and less American novels from the kind that John Steinbeck, Sloan Wilson, Rona Jaffe used to write.
Unfortunately this trend goes on in Germany as well (however, I still read about 45 new books per year from Germany).
I worry that 10 years from now all we will get will be manga, dystopian/fantasy/graphic crime novels. :(
Ria wrote: "I have been an avid reader for years now but suddenly even I'm in a reading slump. I feel the content back then was so much better than what we get now in the romance section. Yes, if it is a combi..."Ria, my tip for you: read novels from the 1990's.
I can highly recommend "Pursuit of Happiness" and "The Big Picture" by Douglas Kennedy, "A Peculiar Chemistry" by Kitty Ray, "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" by K. C. McKinnon, "Three Women at the Water's Edge" (Nancy Thayer), "Nell", "Belonging" and "Family Secrets" by Nancy Thayer, all 9 crime novels by Michael Allegretto, anything by Linwood Barclay starting with "No Time for Goodbye", "Winter Solstice" and "Coming Home" by Rosamunde Pilcher, "Deceptions" and the sequel "A Tangled Web" by Judith Michael, "Strange Fits of Passion" by Anita Shreve, "Where or When" (Anita Shreve), "In a Dry Summer" by Peter Robinson, the Stieg Larsson trilogy, "A Place of Execution" by Val McDermid, Patricia Highsmith (everything she wrote before "Edith's Diary) and the Marseille trilogy by Jean-Claude Izzo.
thanks for the help everyone! I'll try to find my current read in the audio version for now
I've dnf'ed some books last year but whenever I see them on Goodreads or bookstagram they are the most liked books and i kind of feel guilty for not finishing them thinking something good must have happened at the end :/(I read 50 to 60% of the book before stopping)
I'm 70% in my current read and nothing is happening but as usual it is quite popular so I don't know what to do..
Nora (Grayson's version) wrote: "I've dnf'ed some books last year but whenever I see them on Goodreads or bookstagram they are the most liked books and i kind of feel guilty for not finishing them thinking something good must have..."Life is too short to keep reading something you don't like.
I agree with Michael and Chrissie. If you are reading a book on KU, an ARC, a Cloud Library, or a $0.00 purchase, and you have read the first Chapter without a thirst for the rest…then DNF it. It is not worth your time. As far as a purchased book…I only purchase books from authors whom I have already read. I rarely read anything that’s the best seller on any list. You will find that the majority of women’s contemporary contain a few steamy scenes to absolute smut to downright pornography. Why? Because “sex” sells. Even writers like Anne Rice initially got her start by writing a retelling of Sleeping Beauty that was so pornographic, I could not read the second volume in the trilogy. (I did not buy that…it was a gift. Ugh 😩)
Chrissie had some good recommendations, but the Stieg Larrson trilogy contains sexually graphic scenes and some are quite violent; however, the books are an outstanding. Good literature is rare.
Let us know what is your preference and we will be happy to recommend something that will appeal to you…without smut. lol 😂
i don't like reading books like those too :/ I prefer light romance like better than the movies which have a good plot with good MMC and FMC also pls recommend some good thrillers (fast paced)
PS. I've dnfed my current read! :)
Try a good fast paced mystery/suspense a real good who done it.I liked Falling by TJ Newman
Christine wrote: "Ria wrote: "I have been an avid reader for years now but suddenly even I'm in a reading slump. I feel the content back then was so much better than what we get now in the romance section. Yes, if i..."Thank you!! Will try one of these soon
Christine wrote: "Ria wrote: "I have been an avid reader for years now but suddenly even I'm in a reading slump. I feel the content back then was so much better than what we get now in the romance section. Yes, if i..."true!! My heart breaks at just the thought of no decent romance books :(
Michael wrote: "Nora (Grayson's version) wrote: "I've dnf'ed some books last year but whenever I see them on Goodreads or bookstagram they are the most liked books and i kind of feel guilty for not finishing them ..."Gabriel Garcia Marquez said that with different words.
Deborah wrote: "I agree with Michael and Chrissie. If you are reading a book on KU, an ARC, a Cloud Library, or a $0.00 purchase, and you have read the first Chapter without a thirst for the rest…then DNF it. It i..."That's true, Lisbeth Salander is exposed to a cruel rapist, but she gets her sweet revenge. I also love the three Swedish TV movies based on Stieg Larsson's trilogy. So much better than the US movies.
