There have been a couple of times in the last few years where nothing I was reading felt like it stuck, despite having all the right ingredients. Before then, I could count the number of times I didn't finish a book I started on one hand. I've been able to come back to a lot of those books later and appreciate them when I was feeling differently. Not always better or more energized, just different. Sometimes the mind has simply had its fill of space elves (or plucky crews of misfits thrown together by fate, as it has felt to me lately) and I have to take some time away for it to be something that gives me joy or satisfaction.
Me too! I like thinking about it as "feeling differently"—not better or healed from burnout or whatever, which is pretty judgmental about one's present feelings, but just—waiting until the weather's changed.
There have been a couple of times in the last few years where nothing I was reading felt like it stuck, despite having all the right ingredients. Before then, I could count the number of times I didn't finish a book I started on one hand. I've been able to come back to a lot of those books later and appreciate them when I was feeling differently. Not always better or more energized, just different. Sometimes the mind has simply had its fill of space elves (or plucky crews of misfits thrown together by fate, as it has felt to me lately) and I have to take some time away for it to be something that gives me joy or satisfaction.
Hoping you can enjoy these books sometime soon :)
Me too! I like thinking about it as "feeling differently"—not better or healed from burnout or whatever, which is pretty judgmental about one's present feelings, but just—waiting until the weather's changed.