The same thing happened to me. It was pretty bizarre to realize I wasn't reading many books at all any more. I've had to make a conscious effort to get back into reading books. It's very easy to slip into the fanfic world -- we know all the characters and have deep (!) relationships with them without having to get to know new people and relationships. I think fanfic sort of shortcuts to some of the important things we get from reading -- but it shorts out some of the other, at least equally, important things we can (and maybe need to) get from reading, such as seeing the world in a new light.
I find I don't read fantasy or science fiction in the quantities I used to read them in -- so fanfic is probably doing the job for me that they do or did. Although ill read a new Jasper Fforde or Christopher Moore in a flash!
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Date: 2013-08-22 11:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-23 04:23 pm (UTC)Because I've been reading so much fanfiction. None of the books called to me like they used to.
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Date: 2013-08-23 06:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-01 12:08 pm (UTC)I find I don't read fantasy or science fiction in the quantities I used to read them in -- so fanfic is probably doing the job for me that they do or did. Although ill read a new Jasper Fforde or Christopher Moore in a flash!
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Date: 2013-09-02 08:44 pm (UTC)That's it exactly. I've been reading so much fanfiction, and books pretty much only for school. *sigh*
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Date: 2013-09-02 10:36 pm (UTC)