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’ve recently finished Beloved by Toni Morrison and yes, I had to take several breaks reading it. Sometimes because it was too much - themes of slavery, infant death, violence. But also sometimes just to think about it - if someone near to me disclosed some of these recollections, how would it change the way I view them? I’m glad I didn’t rattle through, I feel like this book has really soaked in bone deep.