Funny I see this post today, after having very similar thoughts myself earlier while trying to read this book I started at the beginning of covid.

Its the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. I really enjoy this book while I'm reading it, but then a couple pages later I'm always distracted by checking my phone, or falling asleep because I'm so comfortable in my bed, or thinking about how I have this backlog of unfinished anime I've been trying to get through - anime in which I enjoy. But for some reason lately it all feels tedious. I feel like when I was younger, I had limited access to this kind of entertainment (books, shows, games) and now that I have ENDLESS access to it, it's incredibly overwhelming. While I attempt to sit and enjoy one thing, I'm thinking about how I should finish the other. It's really frustrating and yeah, I too was also wondering if my attention span was screwed up thanks to unintentional internet addiction, and maybe that's why I couldn't just finish this one book. I used to wake up every morning and go straight to reading (if I didn't have obligations) and would generally go the entire day reading until I got sleepy. I felt that my vocabulary was more vast when I was reading a lot and now I just smoke weed and play video games. I genuinely feel less intelligent and it makes me really sad..and trying to sit down and read makes me even more aware of that fact.

I realized that fantasy, especially DnD type stuff is something that I wish I tried diving into a lot sooner. It's so very interesting and I love how my brain visualizes what is being described. The world of Menzoberranzan is absolutely beautiful yet so vicious and dark. I've always wanted to play DnD but never knew people who played, also I feel like because I'm a girl it's a lot harder to find a group. But I read a couple chapters of this book today, and though it resulted in a nap, I realize there's a lot of terminology that I'm unfamiliar with and it's sort of teaching me/preparing me? for when I do end up in the situations where I'd be playing DnD and not look like a total noob lol. I think if I find the universe interesting and I want to know more and more about it, that's enough to feel welcomed. After today I decided that I will at least try to read a chapter or more a day, and that may not be much but for me it is baby steps and helping to prove that I can get back into the habit of reading more often like I used to. And hopefully that will include a hell of a lot more fantasy novels. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

This sort of turned into a rant. I don't have anyone to voice these things to, so if it sounded all over the place -- I apologize.