Welcome to Litsy!

#thisorthat #bookslumpblues
1️⃣Introvert
2️⃣Sleep
3️⃣Depends on what else I‘m doing
4️⃣Neither
5️⃣Try Comics or rereading old favorites, or if I‘m struggling with a particular book, I‘ll try a different format (audio instead of print), or just walk away from reading for a bit and do other hobbies (crochet or quilt). Play with the dog or binge Netflix. Try not to worry too much and make the slump worse.

#bookslumpblues @hermyknee

📚 I‘m an ambivert, switching depending on my mood.
📚 Do more. I‘m not a heavy sleeper unless I‘m sick.
📚 Either, but movies when Mr. B is around.
📚 Cook or bake
📚 Try short stories, poetry, graphic novels. Go to the gym, the pool, or somewhere to distract yourself. Meet friends for coffee or ice cream. ❤️

1. Introvert
2. Definitely do more! 👜🚗🗺 There is so much out there I want to experience.
3. A movie I guess, since I haven‘t listened to an audiobook. I‘ve only listened to children audiobooks.
4. Both really. . .it depends on my mood. If I am cooking than my husband will clean. 🍔🌮🥗 And vice versa; thanks honey!
5. Not sure. I‘m battling it right now too. My book “Dark Places” is kind of slow at the moment.

1. Introvert with a extroverted job. Now retired so it‘s less draining. All those years of “performing” were hard. 2. 💤 sleep please. 3. Movie! I have just recently accepted audiobooks as a possibility. 4. Ha! If forced, clean. Cooking? Now semi-retired. 4. I go back to a well loved book every time. I skim, find favorite parts, highlight, or just read. Usually helps. When my dad died, I stopped reading for three years. It helped me.

#thisorthat #bookslumpblues
1. Introvert
2. Sleep more (I‘m already in 🛏)
3. Movie
4. Cook (bake)
5. I start as many books as it takes to grab me. I give them 50 pages; if I‘m not into it, I put it aside and try another until one clicks.
I hope your slump doesn‘t last long.

Looking forward to these! Hope to start the Angela Davis book some time this weekend. #bluesmusic #africanamericanmusic #feminism #diversity #musichistory

The 1963 thesis of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) is that the Blues (and by extension, Jazz and its iterations) could only come from the American Black context - From the early days of call & response in the fields as slaves through the era of Jim Crow (The Blues) and beyond (Jazz.) It's a little "screedlicious" at times; but that doesn't mean he's wrong.

(Pictured: Jelly Roll Morton at the piano; Detail of uncredited but widely circulated photo.)