If I‘m in a reading slump, I usually go to an old favorite, like the tagged or a favorite genre (cozy mystery or golden age mystery). With any luck, one of the two will kick things back in for me.
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I tend to muddle through, but I love reading screenplays and this would be my go to read.
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I schedule a visit to my therapist. There has only been one time that a slump lasted longer than a few months, and I was in a deep depression.
I also indulge in dramas based on books. Bridgerton and Masters of the Air. If I like the adaptation, I will read/listen to the books.
I never stopped reading. I read snippets of historical posts or magazine articles.
Usually by picking up a thriller as they tend to suck me in. I have comfort reads that I pick up randomly too, but because they're rereads, my attention span tends to be smaller. I need to log my reading slumps to try to see if there's a pattern of some kind...
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When I get in a slump, I usually just walk away and do something else. I'll work on a mini kit, or play a video game or go for a walk. Sometimes I'll do a schedule where I read a chapter then work on something for 15 minutes then read a chapter and so on. I'm also ok with DNFing books, I'm not going to waste time reading something I don't like.
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Sometimes reading magazines or doing what the tagged book implies, read easy breezy romance, can help me clear the deck to get out of the slump. 📚
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I don‘t often find myself in a book slump (knock on wood) but when I do I turn to a comfort genre, usually cozy mystery, that I know will hit for me every time!
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Something I call a #rechargeathon, which is a marathon of fantasy movies that fuel me with hope.
I had a huge reading slump in January that I posted about https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2831343
For little ones, I read comics.
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I handle book slumps by doing something else that interests me and then returning to reading when it interests me again. I always come back to reading eventually. 📚📚📚
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First I walk around looking at my bookshelves and sigh dramatically. Then I pick up a few books, read a few pages and lounge on the couch consumed by ennui. Sometimes I‘ll scroll through Litsy looking for inspiration. Or I‘ll avoid looking at my bookshelves because I feel guilty. I‘ll look over my TBR and wonder what the purpose of it even is anymore. And then finally some book appeals and I‘m reading again.
