My Trick for When the Novel I am Reading Gets Boring

[-Carlos-]

Stop reading the novel. Start reading a (or two) short stories by different authour(s). That refreshes myself before picking up the novel again.

 

[-Carlos-]

Two of my favs:



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[SFG75]

I like that idea. I prefer to put it down and then start again when I'm in a reading funk.

 

[velocipede2288]

I do that also, sometimes reading 3 books at a time, and coming back to the first one later. Or if it is too boring, I just give it to a charity shop

 

[Eva]

That's when I usually catch up on my accumulated pile of magazines, clippings, and professional reading. When Library Science articles seem more attractive than the novel I'm reading, it's definitely time for a break.

 

[Peder]

I keep several novels going at once, staying with the one that is most interesting, and then returning to one of the others later. If a novel gets passed over too many times, I just move it to the partly read stack and forget about it.

 

[Eva]

If a novel gets passed over too many times, I just move it to the partly read stack and forget about it.

Ah yes, the partly-read shelf. It guilts me constantly.

 

[The Mythwriter]

For me personally, if I interrupt a novel, I'll never get back into it. And that builds the "Partly read shelf o' shame" others have mentioned, haha.