any other on/off readers?

[Vacua]

everyone thinks I'm an avid rabid reader and I am sometimes, but I often go through depressing droughts when I can't concentrate/am not interested in reading

think am coming out of a recent such phase, but still unsure of how to tempt myself back in to my usual 3 or 4 books a week pattern

I find young adult fiction helpful during these times but as am working on a book for young adults at the moment I need something different but similarly easy to concentrate on - any ideas?

would very much like not to be alone in this

[foxinsocks]

what do you do (work)?

Yes, I have periods like that - more often than not correlating with a time when my mind is jumpy iyswim.

So, more often than not, I'll read slow burners but after coming out of one of those phases, I need to start with a book that grabs me on the first page - so a thriller or a crime fiction or someone like Harlan Coben when I can dive straight back into knowing the characters.

Do you like anything like that?

[foxinsocks]

it annoys me when I have one of those phases - really pisses me off when I can't pick up a book and get on with it. Luckily, they don't happen too frequently.

[aGalChangedHerName]

I am the same. I CM 7am till 7pm Mon to Fri.
I also have 4 dc ranging in ages from 1.5 up to 16.5 so time is a factor.

But i just can't seem to summon up the energy or desire to get myself to the library.

My ds1 lent me Anthony Kedis's autobiography and i am reading that.I quite fancy him so i enjoy the picyures

Really don't know what i'll do when i finish that.

I used to read 9/10 books per week.

[Vacua]

fox - I do turn to thrillers and often enjoy them, anything with a tight plot (although hugely irritating characters sometimes) that I zip through quickly is good. it was a fairly new genre to me a year or so ago but one am bored with at the moment I think

I write non-fiction (have just built up from contributing the odd chapter to whole books, commissioned and everyfink) and also walk dogs. am studying to be a KC accredited behaviourist at the moment. is probably not ideal to have so many things on the go, as single parent, but I like it and find one complements the other beautifully - have ideas when out with the dogs, meeting strangers and so on and have a nice rest (physically) when writing

gal - think it is time that is my problem too, although always find time for mucking about the internet

[slim22]

I'm like that too.
What I do is alternate novels and essays.
When low concentration I tend to start 3 novels and drop them after 50 pages. I find it easier to focus on non fiction.

[Vacua]

non fiction was another new year's res for me, not one have made enormous progress aside from reading list about dogs dogs dogs and am just sliding over the top of those books anyway

[aGalChangedHerName]

Hmm Vacua lol,yes just lack the whatever it is to really get into a good book. Doesn't help that i am still cosleeping with dd2(which i love) but can't read in bed which i used to really enjoy

[Vacua]

that's another thing, my 8 yo increasingly sleeps in my bed although have dim lamp that doesn't wake her but is a bit uncomfortable to read by

anyway, am getting into bath with the papers at least - book section of times might whet my appetite

[foxinsocks]

what reignited my love for books (not that it ever went away) was commuting - I now get 90 solid mins a day where I can read and as much as I hate the actual commute, I love the opportunity to be on my own and do some reading.

Vacua, one of my sibs is an animal behaviourist!