Thursday, July 4, 2013

Book Blocked

If you are an avid reader like me, I'm hoping you can shed some light on something that happens to me more and more often these days.

I am one of those people that, given enough time, can read a book in a day, or at least a book a week. Well, a normal book, not Anna Karenina. That one took a while... Anyway, the point is that I can read a lot and usually do. I also read several books at a time just to keep things interesting. But sometimes I will finish a book and be completely unable to pick and commit to a new book to read. It's not that they're not good books that I choose - I picked one up yesterday and got completely sucked in until I had to take the dogs out, then totally ignored it the rest of the night.

Am I crazy or does this happen to other people, too?

I hope I'm not crazy.

Sometimes I can figure out what some of the contributing factors are. The last two weeks of work have been kind of crazy, so I cut my lunch breaks short to make sure my work gets done, so I couldn't read at lunch. And now that school's out, my husband is working during the day, so he's been a distraction in the evenings when I come home. Normally, however, I'm really good at tuning him out.

Right now I am staring at three books that want me to finish reading them. Is there a cure for a book blockage??

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