I can’t focus. I can’t sit and read. I cant get engrossed in a book or series, god forbid it’s a long series too otherwise I won’t touch that, except the times where I wanted to try Game of Thrones or Wheel of Time. I like fantasy, I really like the action, but I can’t stand the slog sometimes. It gets boring just reading through description after description and it’s just boring to the point where I tell myself I’m gonna DNF it but then I go back to it later on, could be a month or two later or could be a year later, I always come back to it. And I tell myself “I won’t put this down”, but I’ll read very sparingly like 1 chapter every week then get bored of it again.
How do I break this? I know the obvious answer is to try new genres, but that’s the thing, I don’t know what I like. I’m the type of person that, once I find my comfort genre or game or book or anything, I’ll stay in it until I get burnt out. I’m scared to leave my comfort level but I know I have to.
I was an avid reader, I swear I was. I read every night when I was younger, you couldn’t catch me without a book in my hands. Now look at me. I feel like I failed myself because I genuinely do not have the attention span to just sit down and read.
It doesn’t help I have an e-reader and a whole bookshelf of physical books, so then I have to decide which I like best: digital or physical. Digital because of the convenience, physical because of the pages turning and seeing the book get thinner and thinner.
Please help. I really wanna get back into reading but I don’t know how.
by Musical_Gee
2 Comments
audiobooks
People have shorter attention spans than ever before. Set aside time to read, start slow, it’s a skill, like a muscle it needs to be conditioned.
The more you get into reading, the less you will give in to the distractions.