To ask you to find my reading mojo

[LEMtheoriginal]

Totally lost it - anxiety greatly restricts what I can read. Fucking phone and social media and yes, mumsnet mean my ability to stick with "difficult" reads is waning. I read on my kindle and need new glasses so paperbacks not an option. As a result I find it hard to find something decent to read.

Any suggestions?

I've just finished 'when you disappeared' by John Marrs. Had me gripped after a few pages!

When I'm too brain-dead to cope with heavy books, I turn back to Agatha Christie, or Jilly Cooper.

Something by Jojo Moyes? She wrote 'Me before you' which is also a film now. Not a sequel and the another couple too. Easy reading, nice stories.

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I read the Agatha Raisin books when I feel like you describe. Even though they are murder mysteries they are very light and silly, so I find they don't trigger any anxiety. Usually this gives me a bit of a springboard into reading other books.

I do like agatha raisin. She's a miserable bitch - a bit like me. I might read another

I read one by a new writer called Anna's Home Front some time ago. It is available on Amazon kindle and paperback

After ditching the book about slavery, I picked up The Missing Wife and it's perfect. I've been reading it instead of the internet for two days.

The protagonist ditches her shitty husband and runs off to France to start a new life. Interesting!

I recently read all of Liane Moriarty's books on my Kindle. Not my usual style, but they were so easy to get into, a bit like a reading snack.

I am exactly the same, faff about on the Internet for hours then feel guilty because I could have been reading something life-enhancing.

I just can't get into anything lately. I don't want to waste time reading something that turns out to be a disappointment (glares at The Girl On The Train ) so I read endless reviews on Amazon and add books to my huge wish list, but struggle to pick one to read. Then when I do I seem to find reasons not to like it - like now, I've read a few pages of Life After Life and I'm starting to think I don't want to read anything set in the past, because I couldn't get on with All The Light whatever it was.

Really what I would love to read is a new Adrian Mole.

I've just finished Robert Webb's How Not to Be a Boy. Very readable.