How to
Get Out of a Reading Slump!
We all experience that O’ so horrible reading slump once in a
while. You really want to read, but it just feels like an impossible task. You
can’t concentrate; you read that one sentence over and over again
but the words are nothing but gibber. You start to daydream, your eyelids
literally go in full combat mode, and you just can’t find a book
appealing enough. The guilt makes you read just to get through it and you end
up hating a really good book. You can’t choose what to read so you just leave
the reading all together. (This can stretch from a week to months even.)
Reading slump is any avid reader’s nightmare. It can become a dark and
depressing time in a bibliophile’s life so I have some ideas you can try
that might just kick a reading slumps butt.
1. The old time
favorite.Get your favorite book from your shelf, dust the cover and enjoy
it another time around maybe for the billionth time or the second time around.
It will be an easy read and you’ll breeze through it. Or just read the
book you are dying to read that has been on your shelf for the last
decade.
2. The magic of the
internet. Search the title of a book
you want to read and browse through some positive reviews, read the synopsis or
watch the book trailer. This might be enough motivation to help you kick start
the mood’t
. . .
for the book you want to read so badly but just can
for the book you want to read so badly but just can
3. Just go with the
flow. Sometimes reading can just become too much and your brain needs a
break from all those words, multi POV’s ext. Like a machine that overheats,
you have to let it cool down for a while. So just ride it out, go watch a
series on Netflix, go to the beach or go to your best friend’s
house. Before you know it you will slump down on your favorite spot with your
next read.
4. it’s all about the vibe. Make a time to
read. Don’t force it. Make sure it’s comfortable for you and there’s
no noise to break your concentration. Go sit in the garden, under a tree with a
blanket or in a hammock on the back porch. Choose a peaceful, comforting and
quiet place and just start to read. Sometimes you are in a boring part of the
book that gradually builds into suspense, why do you want to miss the good
stuff, Right?
5. Get out there.
Get up early, nag your mom for some spending money (Just joking wash the dishes
and do your chores and then nag your mother for spending money.) put on your
favorite shoes and coat and go on a Bookstore Crawling or just go to your
favorite book store. Buy a new book or two or three (Take your time and breathe
your surroundings in.) Take your new books after a long day of hard work and go
drink a coffee at the nearest coffee shop, now ravel in your new buys.
Sometimes I feel more excited to read a new book but I make myself read the
ones I need to before I can read those. Maybe it will pluck you out of that
reading slump and it will feel like you took a new breathe of fresh air.
6. Bail the comfort
zone. Read a book of a genre you don’t normally read as much. You might just
discover your new favorite book/genre/author! Like a Thriller or a Paranormal
Romance.
7. Try an audiobook.
While you’re doing other things, if you’re one of those people who are great at
multitasking. Just put it on your iPod and listen to it while walking your dog
or cleaning the house or washing dishes or doing fitness or walking to
school/work. I have audiobooks for just that purpose and sometimes you just
have to rest your eyes and let someone else do the reading for once.
8. Zoom! The
fast-paced reads.Read the kind of book that’s hard to put down; it feels like it’s
sucking the life out of you because you can’t do anything else but read, yes that
kind of book. Try Divergent by Veronica Roth (I have Four reason for you to
read this.) or The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. An oh-so-good
dystopian/romance novel might just do the trick. Or just read a very short book
like a novella, it would feel like you ran a marathon and made it through to
the end. (Yeah, you did it!)
9. Get inspired.
Read blogs written by people you really admire and learn from, the people you
trust when they recommend you a book like abookutopia. I love Sasha’s
reviews on YouTube, she’s so energetic and her passion for books
just forces you to run to your shelf, grab the nearest book and devour it.
10. Find a Book
Bestie. Pick up your phone and call your partner in bookish crimes. (Not
the illegal ones please.) Ask them if
they want to read a book with you preferable at the same time. If your friend
gets to be ahead of the book, you’ll feel obligated to beat them and if
you are ahead you will still feel obligated to beat them by finishing the book
first. It’s the best in encouragement you BFF can give you so why not
just try it. Afterwards you can drink a nice cup of tea, discuss the book and they
can also help you write the perfect review.
Reading slumps can be such a drag but if you tried one of
these tips and it worked, leave a message in the comments below.