patientandkindlove posted: " Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The words all mix together like A lumpy soup, luke warm and sad They don't excite the way they should. The pages turn so slowly with A painful wait between the chapters Not sure these words are understood." Patient & Kind
I'm in a dreaded reading slump at the moment. I have two books on the go and I'm not enjoying either of them and it is one of the worst feelings that a reader can possibly suffer.
Diving into a book gives me release from a world that is sometimes not very nice, so when I'm stuck in a bad book I feel like a door has been closed to that other world. I am quite literally locked out of the place that will make me feel better.
There is the argument that I could just put the book down and start something new, but I fall into the camp that hates giving up on a book. I do occasionally DNF a book, but it hurts my soul to do that and I would rather soldier on miserably.
I am into the last 30 pages of one of the books so I am almost there and I can't wait to get to start another. It feels like the final few miles of an ultra marathon; not very pleasant at the moment, but it will feel worth it when I post my star rating on Goodreads.
And then there's the fact that the quality of a book is so subjective. I'm slaving away through this novel while others are lapping it up and loving every word. I wish I could like everything, but alas, being human involves having likes and dislikes and going through little dips where reading feels like a chore.
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