I have heard people mention the dreaded book slump in the blogosphere, twitterverse, and bookstagramopolis (….it just occurred to me that bookstagram [aka bookish instagram] doesn’t have a location name like the others do, so I’ve just remedied that. You’re welcome), but hated ever experienced it. Well, I’m experiencing it now. AND IT IS HORRIBLE. No book is good enough, no bookish thing is fun enough. It’s all horrible and I’m dying.

You may not have noticed my book slump. 

My posts are usually scheduled 2-3 weeks in advance (book reviews usually 4-6 weeks), so although I’ve been experiencing the WORST BOOK SLUMP EVER and am literally not bookstagramming, tweeting, or blogging AT ALL (let alone reading much of anything), it still seems like I’m pretty active. Let me just make things clear: I’m barely scraping by in my bookish life.

I have actually missed a few days of instagram posts (GASP YOU GUYS I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE – NOT EVEN WHEN TRAVELING ABROAD) and what scares me more:  I don’t care.

And now my scheduled posts are running out. And reading a half of a book for the month of July really isn’t going to cut it. So I’ve got to figure something out to remedy this situation.

How do I fix this book slump?!

Whelp, I think it all started because I recently began querying agents for the novel I’ve written (I’ll talk about this more at a later post). This is an extremely time-consuming process. LIKE. EXTREME. I can’t even believe how long it takes me to query one agent.

So I’ve told myself I can only query on the week days and not on the weekends, so that I have more time for myself on those days.

And I was listening to Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas (the second in the Throne of Glass series), and you know what? I DNF’D IT. No shame in my game here. I was bored halfway through. I knew it was a bad slump when View Spoiler ».

So it’s time for me to bring out the big guns to fix this slump:

I’m going to re-read Twilight. 

Wish me luck. It’s been over 10 years since I read it last, but I was OBSESSED then, so I hope it has the same charm then as it does now. *fingers crossed*


Have you been in a book slump? How did you fix it?