Reading is such an up and down skill for me that my pdoc asks about it to help know where I am if I am even slightly up/mixed. We also share books as we have the same taste in them but she started asking as a way to judge my mood before we discovered we could refer each other to good books. When I'm not up/mixed I can read much better (but not like I used to; in grad school my classmates would groan at me because I had a nearly photographic memory. That's gone now) but when I'm bad I resort to children's books, specifically the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I've read them all many dozens of times and even bought a 2 volume set so when I go IP so do the only books I can read.

It's tough when you love reading and can't.