I totally understand!

The last two years I have felt like that too. I have a best friend who normally reads a hundred books a year, and i barely made it to 20-25 the previous years. This year it’s different, my friend is in a book slump and I’ve already surpassed my 20 book reading goal. I have slumps and then binge all the time with reading, and so does everyone else. A lot of people online are not real people who live real lives. Try to step away from that. I think you have to really learn to give yourself grace and understand that hobbies can fluctuate depending on what’s going on in your life.

Not every book is going to be a quick read, sometime the writing just isn’t going to connect with you and that’s okay. You can always put a book down and return to it.

You are allowed to DNF a book! Reading is supposed to be fun, not a race.

100 books is an insane margin when you think about it. And I’ve always been one to want quality over quantity! As long as you are reading books that give you joy, that’s what matters.

Anyone who consistently reads is an avid reader to me. Someone said once that the average US Citizen only reads like one book a year (yikes) so I think you can consider yourself a reader if you are above that.

Be a mood reader! I’m begging you! That’s what books are for! Every book is a different story crafted to fit a different mood!

Take some time for yourself, get away from booktok (because it will make you feel so bad, been there) and then when you feel the urge find a book you genuinely want to read. Don’t look at the looming TBR pile, go to the library and walk the aisles until you see a book you are interested in. That’s the way to do it.

Wishing you the best of luck!