Book Coma
Trying to navigate the overwhelm of reading desires
I know I’m not alone on this topic.
We’ve all been there. The moment you find yourself in a book coma.
It’s that feeling of simultaneously wanting to read every book in sight and yet realising there simply isn’t enough time, energy, and eyeball endurance, even brain bandwidth to do so.
As a well seasoned sugar addict, a book coma is like the same sensation you get from having a sugar rush and then a sugar crash.
This weekend I have quite a few books I’d like to dive into.
But how does one cope with the delightful yet dizzying sensation? When I feel like this, I end up not reading at all. Which is rather frustrating. I find myself being easily distracted by social media and doom scrolling, when really I should be reading. God damn phones!
It’s the weekend, so I’m going to try and have a digital detox for a few hours, I daren’t say for the whole day, because quite frankly it won’t happen. Although I have managed to survive without my phone for 3-4 days. Last year I hosted ‘digital detox…