Comments on: Reading Slump

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:09:51 +0000

Whine about it on my blog.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:57:44 +0000

Thank you all for your comments, and apologies for not responding sooner. My reading slump corresponded with a blogging slump, so I haven’t been on for a couple of days. I’m hoping to get back to my regular blogging schedule as of next week.

By: Lynn Spencer

Lynn Spencer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:50:37 +0000

Usually when I’m in a reading slump, I just change up genres in my non-review reading. At any one time, I have at least two books going – my review book and my non-review book. After a run of frustrating category reads, I’ve been on a little suspense and chick lit kick lately.

By: Edie

Edie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:45:31 +0000

Oh I just had a killer of a slump! It went on FOREVER!
I have no helpful advice… I just whined… A LOT!
I am not a re-reader so I am generally up the creek. There are a couple of fave authors I can read when in a slump, but they tend not to break a slump. (As they raise my expectations and if next book doesn’t meet them immediately I am back in slumpland)
Though that said one thing that broke the recent killer slump, I had a big break (which was needed I think) was picking up something different, this time it was Ava Gray, which was just different enough to grab me in, and since that awoke the reading bug a bit, went on a glom of the Moira Rogers backlist, I had read and enjoyed her others, so that was a fairly safe bet.

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:25:18 +0000

I sometimes hit a slump after I’ve finished a really good book. Whatever I read next seems to underwhelm me, though I can usually read my way back out of a slump with something escapist. Right now I’m in a whirlwind of reading, which has to be factored around my obsession with watching the Australian Open Tennis from Melbourne – recording it all night, watching it way too much all day…

By: Magdalen

Magdalen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:54:15 +0000

I’m not sure this qualifies as a slump, but I’m trying to read through my TBR pile (which, as I don’t stop buying books, never seems to shrink!) and I alternate contemporaries with historicals. As I won’t often “unselect” a book once I’ve picked it up, and as I only read one book at a time, I will sometimes hit a wall — a book I am just not loving.

Happened to me the other day — so I jumped ahead. My reasoning is this: if the book is great, I can go back and read the first 100 pages or so. And if it’s not, then I’m that much closer to finishing it!

And if all else fails, I have massive TBR piles of magazines.

By: Nicola O.

Nicola O. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:24:35 +0000

Usually I switch genres or subgenres. If I’ve been reading a lot of historicals, I’ll try a contemp. Or if I’ve been pigging out on paranormals, I’ll switch to historicals.

Or I might get really crazy and read something out of the SciFi/Fantasy section.

I’m not much of a re-reader, but I do have a couple of faves and that can work too.

By: Jill Sorenson

Jill Sorenson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:30:13 +0000

I write. Pretty soon, I’m dying to read again.

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:18:43 +0000

Yep, same here. Pick up and old standby or a fast, easy swallow. Both have worked for me recently. I re-read SILENT ON THE MOOR and then I picked up those Julie James bibliocrack books. Thank goodness for those.

Hope your slump dies an ignominious death very soon.

By: K.C. (Smokin Hot Books)

K.C. (Smokin Hot Books) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:58:43 +0000

I know how you feel. I had my reading slump a couple of weeks ago, usually happens when I read too many books in the same genre. So I used the time to play with my blog and read books in a completely different genre like historical/gothic romance. Then I was cured!