For a while this winter I was suffering from reader's block.
Reader's block is even WORSE that writer's block. I love to read, but I was filled with anomie. I would walk into a bookstore and would admire the books that I have already read, but I literally could not think of what to read. I'd pick up a book, read the blurb, and set it back down again.
Recovery from reader's block took a long time. Shyly, I picked up "Big Fat American Baby," a book of short stories that reminded me a little of Ray Bradbury for some reason. But that was only a temporary solution. Then, I stumbled on a review of Daniel Tammet's book Born on a Blue Day, in the New York Times. Daniel has Asperger syndrome. The book was really very interesting, and I decided I wanted to know more. That book led naturally into News from the Border, another book about autism, and then George and Sam, another book about autism, and then . . . whew! Reader's block was over. Now, as usual, I've got several books going at once.
Thank goodness, I've gotten over my reader's block, but please, for my sake and the sakes of any other Kossacks who might be suffering from reader's block now and in the future, tell me what you are reading. In a community of intelligent and like-minded people, these suggestions will no doubt rid the world of this horrible malady for good.