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Lately I feel the same. There's a book that has received many great reviews The Painting of Porcupine City: A Novel by Ben Monopoli. Or
Aisling Book One: Guardian by Carole Cummings or something free Stockholm Syndrome by Richard Rider or a slavefic that I really liked Hidden Boundaries by C.S. McClellan.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. I think Aisling is actually on my TBR list...

Right now I think I've got about 5 different books open on my desktop...it's completely ridiculous. But I just can't keep interested in any one of them long enough to keep reading. So I flit from one to the other and back again. It's crazy.

I've also been doing a lot of re-reads lately, because I've been so disappointed and bored with all the new reads I've been attempting lately. At least with books I've read before, I know what I'm getting into!! I've re-read the entire Anita Blake series over the last month, plus a bunch of other urban fantasy/paranormal MF books. I've also re-read all of Ann Somerville's Darshian Tales, for like the 5th time probably. I've also been re-reading Z.A. Maxfield, Matthew Haldeman-Time, S.A. Payne, and a few other favorites. But there's only so many times I can re-read the same books!!

I think it's perfectly normal to feel this way. You have reached a stage when you read certain books, and naturally you start comparing them with your favorite reads. Or maybe all those books are just not good enough. We're becoming picky, hard to be satisfied with the same old tropes developed in similar manners. As for me if a book doesn't catch my interest 50-75 pages into it, I just drop it, it's not worth spending my free time with something unconvincing.
I believe you should change the genre, no more m/m for a time, or perhaps some gay themed fiction without romance as a main plot. Alternatives are plenty, just give it a try :)

Thanks dear! I've been reading some paranormal romance/urban fantasy lately, just to get something different like you advised. And I've also started dropping books if they aren't keeping me interested. You know, I never used to do that...I would power through no matter what just to see what happens. But I just don't feel that compulsion anymore. (Thank goodness!) You're right, it's just not worth the time.