Reading slumps are the most important parts of our reading lives. Hit 'Read More' to get to tips on how to finally achieve your book slump.
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Mostly if you are busy, you don't read. People who don't read often say that they are too busy to read. So, your key is to get busy. However, some people read when the procrastinate. Since you are aiming to get into a reading slump, you should avoid that. Or you could try procrastinating on reading. That would work, too. Find a new job, go to university again, clean your flat every day (or consider buying a house, because they take longer to tidy up). Be as busy as you can. Being busy means no time to read.
2. Be sceptical about reading new books.
For this tip, you have to finish a book or a book series first. And that book or series has to be good. If that happens, congratulations, you're on your way to a great book slump. Then you have to mistrust all the other books or series. Actually, all of the books in the world. Just don't read any books, because none of them, not a single one of them shall be as good as the one you have just read. You should also consider getting rid of all the books you own, because just thinking of them will disrupt your reading slump. Which brings us to the third tip
3. Forget that books exist.
Stop all your subscriptions to book blogs. Stop going on Goodreads. In fact, delete your account there. Goodreads is the killer of reading slumps and there is no way you can quietly get into one and stay in it if you are a regular user of Goodreads. And stop going to your local bookshops, in fact, you should e-mail them, asking their owners to close them completely. Your reading slump doesn't need a vision of new books or recommendations. All it needs is just no books.
4. Read the same genre over and over.
If you are a hard case that just won't enter the book slump at all costs and you still can't get rid of the craving to read, just try reading the same genre over and over. Pick the genre that you don't enjoy the most and then buy all the books of said genre from a bookshop at the other end of the town (you burnt down your local one, remember?). Maybe reading them all will actually make you want to be in a reading slump, because it will mean that you don't have to read them anymore. Hello, reading slump!
5. Read a book you know you will hate.
Have you got any particular book you couldn't stand in high school or that you just didn't like reading or that you just generally know you won't like? Read it, then! It will remind you that there are books worth slumping for. Intially, you should start loving them, because they will be the ones who will always get you into a reading slump should you ever feel yourself getting out of one.
6. Find as long book as you can and then read it.
Pretty self-explanatory. Go into a bookshop and literally buy the thickest brick of a book you shall find. Then read it. The bliss of a reading slump is waiting for you.
7. Engage your mind with other things than reading.
Find a new hobby. Buy a dog.Start a project. Engage into collecting insects around your country. Just do something that will keep you from reading, because that's what you want to achieve if you are trying to get into a reading slump. Forgetting about reading will do the trick and in order to do that, you have to occupy yourself with doing things that exclude reading. Be careful about so called passive reading. That may also mean reading tutorials or Facebook posts or anything else. You have to avoid all these activities, because they are hindering your reading slump.
A question for everyone: Do you think that reading slumps are the sound of a bright future ahead?