Concentration Levels of Zero or Below



Anyone who’s read my site regularly knows that I adore reading. It’s one of the few activities I have consistently enjoyed since the age of four. Despite a short break during the school years in college, I’ve read at least one book a week for years and years. Even when I was in college, I spent my summers reading avidly just to catch up.

So one would think that throughout the struggles of my pregnancy, I would take solace in my reading. I would bury myself in books. Well, not exactly. In the last six months since I’ve been pregnant, I’ve read a total of eight books. Four of these were on vacation in Turkey. That’s barely one a month. Before the pregnancy, I’d been reading two a week. I still read the New York Times every Sunday and do a lot of other article reading, but books have been going so slowly. I started Franken’s “Lies and …” two weeks ago and I am only a quarter’s way into it.

I seem to be able to read fun books that don’t require any concentration, but when it comes to a normal book, my attention span is all of two pages before either my eyes close or I get up to pee. Putting pregnancy reading aside (that’s another entry for another day), I really miss reading. So I was hoping you might be able to make some recommendations of easy reading that’s really a page-turner. I read everything but romance and fantasy. I am open to all suggestions. At this point, I figure any reading is better than no reading.

Any good suggestions?

8 comments to Concentration Levels of Zero or Below

  • I can’t believe it. 6 months!? Where have I been? CONGRATULATIONS!

    xox

  • Ooo, requested recommendations! 🙂

    I’m not sure if the following books are floofy enough but I really enjoyed:

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon,

    English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, and

    The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

  • Fluff? You want fluff, I’m the master of fluff. For the past two years, that’s all I can manage.

    Really, really, really good laugh out loud fluff:

    Marian Keyes – anything she’s written

    Catherine Alliott – anything she’s written

    Meg Cabot – Boy Meets Girl

    Sophie Kinsella – Confessions of a Shopaholic

    But I warn you — laughs by the dozen.

    And I know because people look at me weird while I’m reading on the bus until I realize that I’m laughing so hard I’ve got tears in my eyes.

    And for crazy mystery, there’s always Kinky Friedman.

  • Carolyn

    Definitely…The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. It is wonderful.

  • oso

    I think I’m sorta the opposite. I often have a tough time keeping interest with fluff … the Da Vinci code sucked me in quick, but I’m pretty sure you read that already.

    I know I go through little ADHD periods myself where I can’t even read full blog posts without needing to click the mouse after a few seconds. I just kinda go with it though and usually I go back to normal.

    Sometimes all I need is a change of environment. A new cafe or reading in a park.

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