My buddy Dave went through the exact same thing last year. He was doing these marathon 45 minute sessions every night and wondering why he felt so drained and stopped seeing any point in it. Then his wife told him to just try writing a few quick lines before bed instead of treating it like homework. He cut it down to like 8 minutes and said it was night and day different. The shorter sessions made him actually want to keep doing it instead of dreading it every night. Sometimes less really is more with this kind of stuff lol.

That 350 average is a bit misleading since it gets pulled down by all the short novels and novellas people vote in. Plenty of clubs out there are reading 500 to 600 page books without anyone blinking, think Ken Follett or Donna Tartt or anything by Stephen King. The real killer with a 900 pager is fitting it into one month, since most clubs meet every 4 weeks and that's about 30 pages a day if you don't fall behind. People quit because of the schedule, not the page count. Give them 6 or 8 weeks for a brick and half those folks probably stick around.