I haven't read a book in months
I think it's because through Grade 7 through Grade 12 I did all of my reading in class when I was bored completely uninteresting in whatever was going on.
I've tried to get back into reading with some false starts. Picked up a thing, thing book on homosexuals in concentration camps but lost interest after a few chapters. I started Wind-Up Bird Chronicles towards graduation and have tried to get myself to keep reading but whenever I pick it up and start reading my mind just drifts and I can't focus and end up reading the same part multiple times.
Any suggestions on how to get back into reading?
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities."
How about re-reading a book you really loved? Something that you haven't picked up in a long time but remember really enjoying. I also find reading something light hearted is best for getting back into reading but that's just me and it is mood dependent.
I was the same, and still am to an extent. My recommendation would be Alex Garland. His works all flew by for me whenever I found it hard to get back into reading.
I am always starting new books, but it's been years since i truly finished anything!
I think i am going to go back to short stories, at least i'll finish those.
So...We are still going to die. Right?
I agree, pick something short that moves, it doesn't have to be beach reading exactly...
My recommendations for short books:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/HST
Slaughterhouse-Five/Vonnegut
Heart of Darkness / Conrad (though technically a novella, I'd give you full credit since it's classic)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Haddon
The Old Man and the Sea / Hemingway
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Adams
The other thing is, carry the book with you wherever you go, like waiting on Chinese food... mmm, Chinese
best, Rich
I'll let you know whenever I'm able to start reading again.
Hm, since I started reading, I haven't stopped.
What everybody said, get a book with short stories or something like that.
I have to say the homosexuals-in-concentration-camps-book sounds very interesting.
just start reading again when you feel like it. just because you don't feel like reading right now doesn't mean you'll never read again. i go through periods when i can read five books at once and finish them in a couple weeks. other times i can't even read a short story. right now i haven't been able to or really want to read anything for leisure. i have to read for class right now so that kind of takes out the enjoyment of trying to read a leisure book.
i say wait til you get excited about a book or reading in general so it's not painful and forced to try to read again.
It's a habit. I got back into reading by picking books that I always wanted to read or felt like I should've read in school but didn't. Then I just read a few pages at night before I went to sleep. Now it's a habit. Sometimes I read 30 pages, and other times it's like 3 but there's always a book on my bedside table.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
I barely read anything all summer. When friends are on call that you know won't be in two months, there is no time for educational fun, only regular fun.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
try to see what your friends are reading. you might be more apt to finish if ya'll could have a discussion on the chapters or something.
way nerdy...but its a suggestion 
I go through phases when I read a lot of books, then I won't be able to finish a book for ages. During that time I normally get really into music, films or TV shows on DVD.
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i did the same thing in school. now that i graduated highschool, Im reading at a way slower rate.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
Let me chain you up in an isolated cellar somewhere and force you to read Ulysses in a twenty-four hour setting, only letting you stop to piss/shit in a hole in the corner and hand feed you your three bread and water meals.
that might help
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
Read what you want to read, not what you think you should read. Is there some light reading purely for entertainment you like? Have no shame! I'm currently reading Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger and it's trashy and fun.
way nerdy...but its a suggestion :)
that worked for me as well... nothing like good ole fashioned peer pressure to really motivate you
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
read twilight. you don't even have to think.
Or read Gravity's Rainbow. You don't even have to actually read it, just skim through it and you'll feel smarter!
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
I was like this too. What I did was find a really short book to read, 200 pages or less, took my time reading it. and gradually worked up to read faster and longer.