I just finished Lonesome Dove. How am I ever going to read another book again for the duration of my life?

I loved thay book. When I finished I felt the same. I wanted to do nothing but get a horse and make beans and Dutch oven biscuits. 

You will move on, it will happen lol.

Maybe another chonker like Poisonwood Bible by Kingslover will help

The great story hangover is too real sometimes, I think we’ve all been there.

Sometimes you just gotta revel in it for a while. If you can’t stop thinking about it, then don’t! Allow it to wash over you until you’re ready to do something else. It’s not often we get that experience from a book, why rush through that process and dive into a new one already?

If you have like, a specific reading goal that you’re trying to reach, try deviating from fiction entirely for a moment and read something non-fiction, memoir, or otherwise real in some way. That might allow you to keep basking in some good ol’ epic glory while continuing the reading push forward.

How about Shogun, another epic period novel to cleanse your palate?

I know the feeling. I have read it 3 times over that past 25 years.

Have you seen the mini-series? It’s as good of a movie as the book is a book.