Anyone else ever go through one of those phases where you can't get into *anything* you try to read? That's been happening to me a lot this year. I pick something up, give it a good try, and just have no interest. As an avid reader (OK, I have a book problem. Just ask birmabang for confirmation on that), I wonder if I'm just going through my "dumbening" (like Lisa worried about on The Simpsons).
I've been trying to read short story and essay collections, and also comic strip collections, comics, and stand-alone graphic novels.
That being said, here's a few things I've enjoyed the past few weeks:
+ Silver Screen Fiend // Patton Oswalt. (I LOVED this. Fantastic. Hoping he shows up at SDCC so I can track him down.)
+ Displacement // Lucy Knisely (Yikes. I didn't think any book could be more depressing than Roz Chast's "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant" from last year, but certainly makes an effort. This is a GN of Lucy's experience taking her very elderly grandparents on a cruise.)
Did not finish:
+ Station Eleven // Emily St. John Mandel (I'm hoping my book club will let me know what happened in the second half of the book, because I could not slog through this. I have no idea how it was a National Book Award finalist last year.)
Anyone else ever get Reading Fatigue?
