My first two years of graduate school I really didn’t read much fiction, I was simply burned out on reading after I finished my 500 pages a week of academic reading. Instead, I decided to set myself a goal of “learning” about old movies, so it gave me an excuse to watch a lot of old movies. I would suggest not beating yourself up about it. Your mind is telling you that it needs a break from books, and that’s pretty common in uni!

Alternate suggestion is – especially if you like genre fiction like science fiction or fantasy – there are some amazing novellas being published as books right now and those are very bite-sized. Martha Wells’ Murderbot series, Mohamed’s The Annual Migration of Clouds, Barnhill’s The Crane Husband are all great books ~120 pp.

Short stories are also an amazing literary form 😏