When You Just Don’t Feel Like Reading

Why Book Fatigue Sometimes Saps Our Drive, Plus 3 Easy Ways to Regain Your Mojo—Including Audiobooks

I was recently afflicted with an unnamed illness. Cold, flu, COVID? I don’t know. But lethargy sapped my will to do much of anything. I felt as if my entire body weighed more than usual, my shoulders too heavy to keep up. Everything moved slowly, including my brain.

Thankfully, I slept a bunch because otherwise I was bored to death and unable to sustain …