Rambling Reader: Reading Rutt
I'm in a terrible, horrible, no-good, very awful place right now. I have a bunch of books on my kitchen table and dresser but I just can't read any of them.I am currently sort of reading Moon Called by Patricia Briggs. I'm maybe 30 or so pages into it. I stopped reading An Abundance of Katherines a while ago, not because I didn't like it, but because I just couldn't keep my mind on it as I was reading. I came home from my trip to Ottawa at the beginning of October to find a surprise in my mailbox - an ARC of Bite Me by Parker Blue from the wonderful people at Bell Bridge Books, but I just can't settle down enough to read anything.I'm not watching a ton of TV (just a couple of shows here and there, like Chuck on Monday, NCIS on Tuesday, maybe Bones on Wednesday and possibly CSI on Thursday...) but other than that? I am so listless and exhausted these days that I almost fall asleep at my desk at work, and try as hard as I can to stay awake during dinner.I normally read before bed, but forget about that right now. After a page or two I am out like a light. However even on weekends, when I normally like to curl up on the couch with a cup of tea and a book, I just have no desire to read anything. I haven't even been reading the newspaper that I get on the weekend, comics even!This is also translating into blogging. Both this and my personal blog are suffering from a lack of time and energy to update. I fear I may lose my 5 or so readers (heh). I just don't know how long this will last or what to do about it.I know everyone gets into a reading rutt once in a while, so it's normal. And I have absolutely no fear that it will remain this way forever. I just don't know how to shake myself out of it. The past two months I have acquired a TBR pile that has a backlog and THAT is a brand spankin' new thing for me. I generally devour books the second I bring them through the door. Point in fact, that image at the top of this post - well I read all those books in about 10 days! That wasn't even enough for me!Now? Now I have about 7 or 8 books hanging around various places in my house and none of them are calling to me. At least if they are, I am deaf to them.I positively hate this feeling. How about you?