What are book hangovers and what can you do about them?

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If you're a reader, you know the feeling: you turn the last page of a book and want to cry that it's over. You immediately feel bereft. You can't stop thinking (and even talking) about the characters, the story. You wish you could turn back time to when you were still reading or somehow enter the pages of the book and live in the world. No other book appeals to you, and you might even start and then abandon books trying to move on. You have a book hangover!
In this episode, we're talking all about book hangovers. What are they? What books have we gotten them from? What kinds of books tend to give us hangovers? Are book hangovers even a real phenomenon? If so, why do they happen? And, perhaps most importantly, what can we do to get over them? Join us to find out!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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Sources (links provided when available and citations shortened to fit) listed in the order they appear in the episode:

• https://www.bookbub.com/blog/signs-of-a-book-hangover
• https://www.rd.com/article/book-hangover/
• https://bookriot.com/psychology-of-a-book-hangover/
• https://bookriot.com/7-cures-book-hangover/

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Intro and outro music: "The Chase," by Aves.
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