I love reading . My idea of a perfect weekend is to be curled up in a comfortable location with a great book or an all time favorite book , so one can imagine my displeasure when I can't just finish a book. In the past month I have started three books, namely- The Catcher in Rye , Autobiography of Booker T Washington and Adventures of Huckleberry ,only to abandon them midway. It was not that I found any of these books uninteresting , I just can't seem to finish them ,with Catcher of Rye I could console myself saying that it was a e-book and I don't really like e-books as I could never read them for a longer period of time .But what about the other two, I am forced to accept that I'm suffering from a reader's block .(Well frankly I thought I had invented the term but when I googled it I found that there was already such a term .)
It is not the first time that something like this is happening to me ,no I have never suffered from reader's block before but the thing is- starting something but leaving it half way is kind of a problem with me .Some examples of projects which I started but left half way are - learning French ,learning German, blogging(even before this I started a blog and then stopped blogging after two post and also kind of abandoned this blog for three years and even now I'm not sure whether I would be able to regularly maintain it ), exercising daily and most importantly my promise (kind of my New year's resolution )that I would not leave anything incomplete i.e once I start a project I would see it though.
So one can see the pattern ,but this reader's block is worrying me so much because I can't remember a time when I was not reading something ,reading has always been a part of my day ,usually the part I look forward to the most , so when can only imagine how I feel when I can't seem to finish something. The past month when I have been unable to read anything is driving me crazy I feel incomplete ,okay that maybe a little over exaggeration but the point is I have to overcome this block ,so here's what I have decided read a book I literally can't keep down i.e a mystery .
It is not the first time that something like this is happening to me ,no I have never suffered from reader's block before but the thing is- starting something but leaving it half way is kind of a problem with me .Some examples of projects which I started but left half way are - learning French ,learning German, blogging(even before this I started a blog and then stopped blogging after two post and also kind of abandoned this blog for three years and even now I'm not sure whether I would be able to regularly maintain it ), exercising daily and most importantly my promise (kind of my New year's resolution )that I would not leave anything incomplete i.e once I start a project I would see it though.
So one can see the pattern ,but this reader's block is worrying me so much because I can't remember a time when I was not reading something ,reading has always been a part of my day ,usually the part I look forward to the most , so when can only imagine how I feel when I can't seem to finish something. The past month when I have been unable to read anything is driving me crazy I feel incomplete ,okay that maybe a little over exaggeration but the point is I have to overcome this block ,so here's what I have decided read a book I literally can't keep down i.e a mystery .
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