Listening to book-related podcasts is always good for boosting my mood. I almost always find a title that either I want to read or I think patrons of the libraries I work at would be interested in. My current reading slump included not listening to book podcasts. Yesterday I listened to 13 back episodes of Books on the Nightstand, two episodes of The Readers, and a few of Dear Book Nerd and BookRiot. And they have fired up my interest in reading again. One of the BOTNS episodes talks about book slumps and I feel better now. Until I heard that episode, I felt guilty and uncomfortable about being in a book slump. Especially because I work in two libraries and therefore surrounded by twice as much reading material. And somehow, I forgot about the iBooks app on my iPhone that I have loaded with 68 books. And then there is still my home library with books I haven't read yet. I have plenty of material to read. The problem is that where I used to automatically pick up my book and read for hours, I have not been doing that for a while. I still want to read, I just haven't been. But hopefully that won't be for long.
Read on,
Paula
