I should not worry so much, because reading slumps come and go. But every time one comes, I worry that it won't ever go. What if I've permanently lost my ability to concentrate? This is certainly possible, in this age of ever-distracting social media.
When I wrote about falling into a reading slump a few weeks ago, I included 10 tips on how to haul yourself out of that hole. But readers, as always, had a lot of other suggestions.
Many people suggested specific authors and titles to drag me away from the abyss. Light crime by Mary Higgins Clark and Stuart Woods, one person suggested on Twitter. Anne Tyler's "Vinegar Girl," said another. (At the start of the pandemic I reread almost every Anne Tyler novel there is. "Vinegar Girl" is her modernized take on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and is indeed worth rereading.)
