Seven ways to pull yourself out of a reading rut

A few methods I have used to cure slower periods in my reading, and what I'm planning to read next (once this current slump is over...)

I’ve got terrible imposter syndrome this week. Here is my confession: I’m in a reading rut. A bad one.

As someone who has made an entire career out of reading, and who prides herself on an exceptionally high Goodreads Reading Challenge goal every year, I feel extra guilty when I get myself into reading slumps.

There are myriad advice columns on this topic, but a lot of them have suggestions that really don’t speak to me. I’m not a huge re-reader, so that never helps. Reaching for a classic will have the opposite affect, if I’m honest—I’ve always been more of a contemporary reader as it is. And I’m already a keen book-abandoner at the best of times, so being even more fussy won’t change anything in this instance. Some people suggest “browsing the children’s shelf” as a way out, but that won’t very well work for me, someone who browses those shelves more often than the ones intended for fully grown adults.

But! Hope is not lost! There are a few strategies I’ve realised do work over the ye…