Reading in the dark
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Reader's block
I have read a couple of posts on this subject lately and, as I experienced this at the end of last year, I thought I would write about what I did to recover from this insidious and distressing condition.
During November and December of last year I found myself really struggling with a feeling of reader's ennui. I had never in my life as far as I could remember experienced a lack of interest in reading, not even when I had serious eye problems. I was griping about it at a party one night and someone said, "Well, maybe you're just not in a mood to read anything; I feel like that sometimes." I didn't reply verbally to this idea, but I'm positive my expression conveyed my thoughts of "Do I know you? or more to the point, do you know me?"
What I finally did was take a long look at what I had been reading and try to determine, much as if I was considering my nutritional intake, if I was getting what I needed out of my reading choices. My new habit of posting what I read over the past month and the source of those books is one of the things I am trying to do in order to more proactively think about what I am reading. I'm also conscious of the fact that I seem to have entered a phase as a reader where I am much more critical regarding not wanting to read a story that seems to be like a hundred or even a dozen other books I have read before.
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Current Location: aerye
Current Mood: accomplished
Tags: books, readng
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