With everyone’s suggestions in mind, I settle onto the couch with a glass of wine and a delectably British Sarah Waters novel I’ve been saving for just the right occasion. I can make my way through them while still being active, cooking, cleaning, working out, and doing other things to help alleviate anxiety.” -Mike Give audiobooks a try: “Audiobooks have been a nice distraction. It doesn’t hurt that romance books are filled with fictional flirting, so much banter, and swoon-worthy moments.” -Natasha I can’t do much but read romance, mainly because I love knowing how it’s going to end, and sometimes having that kind of knowledge is all we need. Lighten it up: “Reading has always been a form of escape, but now it’s this necessary part of my day that keeps me just a little bit more sane. I switched to reading longer books, which I always find more immersive because they give you more time with characters, setting, plot, etc.-and I find myself longing to return to them.” -Taylor I felt so anxious I couldn’t focus and just wanted to keep checking the news. Spend longer in stories you love: “When all of this first started, I was having a really hard time reading. Short stories for short attention spans: “All the books I’d been so excited to get my hands on back when life felt normal can’t actually hold my focus.the one thing I’ve managed to read is short the nature of the format, I don’t have to focus as long.” -Emma It turns out these normally voracious readers are feeling the struggle too. In search of a way to get my reading back on track, I turned to my publishing colleagues for suggestions. According to Christian Jarrett, PhD, a clinical psychologist based in the U.K., “Research shows that chronic stress affects the way the front of the brain works-the area… normally controls our ability to concentrate and switch attention from one thing to another.” Simply put, during something as stressful as living through a global pandemic, “we lose our usual mental flexibility and become highly focused on the source of the threat,” making it difficult to lose yourself in another world. We’re all struggling to focus right now, and it turns out there’s a reason why.
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