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Old 07-30-2015, 03:25 PM   #354
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
What issybird said. This isn't a competition (thank goodness! I have enough competition in my life.) On total read, I'm doing quite well this year. I was way down in the spring--a combination of work pressures and burnout--but I'm back on track. The sub-goals, however, are proving a bit more challenging. I'm doing _somewhat_ better at recording my purchases and reads, but not as well as I would like. This all too easily leads to inaccuracies when I finally get around to catching up. I need to keep working on that.

As for burnout? We all go through it at times. Personally, I think this is your brain telling you that you need to do something else for a bit. When I hit a patch like this, I up the exercise and switch to "old favourites" to read.
The way I avoid the burnout is I keep changing genres all the time. Sometimes I am in terrorism thrillers, sometimes I read thrillers and sometimes I read Sci-Fi. I have been reading everything I can get my hands on since I was in pre-school (taught myself to read)and suffered from burnout once.
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