Weird question maybe but I find myself being so sensitive at times that I have to put down the book I’m reading and wait some time before I read again.
It can be for example when it all is looking dark and I don’t think thing are going to turn around. It’s silly I guess but I feel so overwhelmed and nervous that I need a break at times.
I’m reading the last chapter in Simon Scarrows book The honor of Rome. Reading the last chapters and I just know things are going to go bad. Or at least I fear it will so I have to take a break before reading again.
I know it’s silly but wondered if someone else felt the same at times.
I had that reaction to The Glass Castle. I read it in a day, but I had to take breaks when it got too depressing for me. I felt so sad for the author as a child.
And I had a similar reaction when reading Unbroken. Sometimes I skipped ahead to see if the person Hillenbrand survived the war or not. Somehow knowing whether they survived or not made it easier to handle reading about their capture, torture, etc.
When I am reading books based on historical events I sometimes read up on that to see what may happen because I fear something bad will happen
I’m the same way! I never read ahead with fiction, but I might with nonfiction. I don’t understand it, but the fact that it’s a real event that already happened makes a difference.