Has anyone ever finished a book and just can’t pick up another one for a while?
Has anyone ever finished a book and just can’t pick up another one for a while?
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Has anyone ever finished a book and just can’t pick up another one for a while?
I was that way after I read Harry Potter!!! I had a book hangover for weeks!!!
I’m about to start Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and I’m already devastated! This book series is going to get me so depressed but I love it. Haha.
I cried so many times throughout those 7 books lol
I have too.
Last year, after finishing A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara! Took a while to want to read anything again, and then it was only non-fiction. I couldn’t manage any more fiction for the rest of 2016!
I can’t seem to finish a book right now, but just over tired I suspect.
I drown myself. Every time I start a new series I blow through the first 4 books then need a couple weeks break xd
No.I always read another one.
That’s the way I always am. But, I finished Dragonsworn last weekend and haven’t been able to pickup another book. Not that I haven’t tried. Thinking of just going to the library tomorrow see if anything can peek my interest.
I try to pick one up right away, before book hangover sets in.
Yup but right now I am reading one right after the other.
That’s the way I normal am.
All the time… and it is frustrating
Yes, The Glass Castle & The Boy in the Striped Pajamas!! Both, so sad . Now reading Wicked. 😉
Once or twice — sometimes you have to let the emotions recede.
me 🙁
Happens to me every now and then but it is because my thoughts are still stuck with the last book. Sometimes I just pick up books and read whatever random page it opens too:) I am weird.
I would just say cooky. 😀
@Katy I think I would leave that note someone posted about meeting up because of your choice of literature in the hopes that someone like you picks it up:)
Aww, thank you
Several times
lol no
Actually happened to me this week. I finished Pattern Recognition and I was so drained and sad. It was a great rollercoaster ride and took me two days to be able to start a new one.
I just finished Dragonsworn last weekend and haven’t been able to pick anything else up. But, I had gone back to work (school bus driver) this week as well. Plus, I maybe stalled because my author (Sherrilyn Kenyon) has the next book coming out very soon.
Sometimes I just re-read the book, then I can MoveOn
That’s some very good advice. 😉
@Katy it works for me:-)
all the time
That’s me now…. I read a bunch over the summer, last book I read was me before you, and haven’t been able to read since…. That was in July!!
Wow… Ty
Gone Girl
Never happened to me
EVERY TIME! Sometimes it drives me nuts but I am fully devoted to books so I can’t help feeling depressed after I am done.
Yes. 🙁
Yes..its.called a book hangover…lol
This is the first time it has been this bad. 😀
Is that what it’s called?
Yup
Yes this is what I’m going through right now except I’m reading a bunch of Wattpad stories instead of books that I own in physical copy. It’s annoying.
A man called Ove!
Yep
Yep, happens a lot to me.
Nope. Knock on wood
This is the first time it has happened to me.
Have to pick another up immediately!
After I finish a book I get all confused with my life… Like, what do I do now… ?Lol ?
Yes. Book hangover ?
Is that what it’s called? Lol
No, I dive straight into the next one!
nope
Oh yes, that happens quite a lot!
To tell you the truth: It has hapend to me occasionallt.
I finished Draginsworn by Sherrilyn Kenyon last week. I have not been able to pick up another book. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I just started back to work or because I am anxiously awaiting the next book of hers to come out. Because she actually posted on her fb page that you have to finish Dragonsworn before you read Battle Born. You don’t have to read her books in order, until now.
I had it a while ago, every book I tried to read after just irritated me.
Im already thinking of the next book while im reading the last pages of the book im on..
I’ve done that, lol
I’ve done that as well
Yes. I hate that.
No but I started two books cos I couldn’t decide
For the first time ?
I’m like that at the moment. I’ve not read properly since finishing The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, a few weeks ago. Thing is I think I’m waiting for the new Dan Brown book, Origin to be released. But I’ve got just less than a month to wait and I think I don’t want to get into anything until then. Having said that I’m trying to read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
I think that’s my problem as well. Waiting for the next Sherrilyn Kenyon book, Battle Born. It’s the book to follow Dragonsworn that I just finished. Lol
Yes, it lasted months.
Yeah, I’ve just finished Jane Eyre and after investing so much emotional energy in to it I cannot bring myself to read another book quite yet.
Yes, that often happens, especially after reading a good book
Almost every time! I call it ‘last page mourning’!!
Not really. I tend to finish a book and then start another one straight away. Even if it’s a completely different genre and type of book
I call it ‘book hangover’ – like my brain has to grieve over what I just finished. Even a happy ending, sometimes I just need the time to process it all before I move on.
Yes it happens sometimes
Yes. Worst hangovers ever.
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Yes mostly True Stories or True Crimes.
Yes
Never try to read a Stephanie Meyers book directly after reading a Stephen King book, it doesn’t work.
I like both because I will read just about anything, but I can’t read so so directly after reading excellent. I’ll wait a bit.
Nope, I usually have a few going at the same time , so I switch back to one of the others after I finish ?
Yes.
oh yeah after I finished the SOIAF,
Definitely!
The Poisonwood Bible. I walked around in “Africa” for days.
I guess I feel that way… coz now m feeling it a bit hard to pick up the next book. …
Guess we are sharing the same boat right now
Many times
Yes. I usually do a reread of something
Nope.
Nope.
Yes. When it’s a good book, I think most people feel that way. I’ve said this before…what I do is start another book before I finish the book I’m reading so I’m already hooked elsewhere.
That’s a good idea… I’ll have to try that. I do usually have another book lined up but I hadn’t this time. Thank you for the advice.
yes
yes, any book relating to the Holocaust…I need a break after that..not for too long though..I need to be reading something!
Yes!
Yes after the book thief, just couldn’t get over this book
Yes!!
Book coma or book hangover….happening right now.
Just finished FORETOLD by @Laura! WOW! Just wow!!
Is that a mystery?
Yes, but not in the typical sense….it is soooo much more!
Don’t you love books like that?
@Julie oh, yes!
That is one of the best feelings in the world.
Nope!
Yes!!!