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In a reading rut?

I Have

I have thought about getting natural light bulbs too, saves energy, and it just feels a lot better on the eyes, not to mention it makes a room look better too.

When I was apartment hunting not too long ago, one fellow had the entire place with such bulbs, but I was denied because I smoke.
 
Am I the only one who likes to read in the winter? I love curling up with a cup of hot chocolate or hot tea, my cat and a book. I find it very relaxing....especially on snowy days (like today).
 
Winter Library

Library books are my preference as well. I also have libraries order books that I want to read or have enjoyed: spread good book access to others! Help them fight back against the deluge of pop culture books!

Ahem.

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I have a hard time reading when I am hot. I don't necessarily love reading when it is cold, but the two seem to have a better relationship with each other.
 
Reader's Slump

With my Bipolar issues I have been in slumps more than I can count. I hate it when I can't read because of my illness.

What is the longest time you have gone without reading (recreation reading)?

Thanks.


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I've gone a month or so. Sometimes I'm just busy with other things, and I'll wake up during the last week of a month and realize I haven't written down a single title on my yearly list of books read. When that happens, I'll blink and start wracking my brain to see if that is really true...what's even scarier, I might HAVE read something, but I just can't remember what it was. Don't laugh younglings; your time's coming. If I find myself in a real honest-to-Betsy reading slump, I'll grab a back issue of Bookmarks Magazine or start slumming through various threads here or at World Literature Forum, or maybe I'll just pick a topic and start browsing Amazon. Usually, I'll find something that interests me.
 
During my 4 years in college I read a total of 2 books for fund. It was both by John Grisham. I believe it was the Brethen and something else.
 
Some years ago, I read a book by a woman who is a reading specialist, with her Phd and everything..she was saying how her years of education had monopolized her time and energy to the point that upon gradation, she realized it had been over six years since she'd read a book for pleasure. Here she was well-equipped to teach children the fine points of reading, but she herself hadn't touched a book for fun in years.
 
About a month. I usually try to get one check mark at least in a month, but my blog list tells me there was even a month lately where I didn't finish a single book. But not two months in a row in recent years.
Hope you break out soon, AB.
 
abecedarian said:
...........and I'll wake up during the last week of a month and realize I haven't written down a single title on my yearly list of books read. When that happens, I'll blink and start wracking my brain to see if that is really true...what's even scarier, I might HAVE read something, but I just can't remember what it was.
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Heh heh, you shouldn't feel like the Lone Ranger. ;)
 
Forgetting if I read a book? Yep, been there, done that.

And if I feel a "reading rut" coming on, I just re-read a book that I really love. Generally snaps me right out of it.
 
I hardly read a thing during my pregnancy as I had the concentration span of a gnat. Now my twins are 12 weeks and the urge to read is back but I have barely any time and am knackered!

I'm slowly working my way through To Kill a Mockingbird.

When I get in a reading rut it can take months to get out of it and get the reading momentum back.
 
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