Let's Get Literate! A Year of Deferred Reading (2020)

[renay]

This year has been awful in many ways, but the one that's been the most emotional for me is the inability to read. Short books? No. Novels? No. E-books? Negative. Audiobooks? Maybe, but it'll take me months to finish one. Even if I managed to start something I would look up after fifteen minutes and multiple turned pages and realize I had no clue what had happened to the characters. Listening meant that I would try to focus but would end up zoning out for hours at a time, coming back to myself to realize I had burned through a few hours of audio with no memory of what I'd heard. The last book I read before my sole September book was in May and I struggled to get through it, even though I liked it. ( Read more... )