I've had the same problem. Graphic novels are the way to go. Also short stories have worked for me. Thanks Blake Bulter and Patrick Somerville for two stunning collections. I really liked Skippy Dies. Do you have the three volume slipcased edition? I wish more publishers would package 1000+ page books in that format.
I go in waves from books to magazines (from fashion to science) to graphic novels and back to books. I can mow down three books in a week when I am in book mode but when I am not I can barely make it through a chapter in that same amount of time.
I got so many books for Christmas that I'm overwhelmed and unable to choose which one to read first. Snakes Can't Run by Ed Lin? The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross? Stories of Your Life or Others by Ted Chiang? I was already a third of the way into Richard Price's Samaritan...