I've come to believe that there are moments, for me, where I have accidentally attained some sort of threshold of knowledge where despite never measuring up to a task before, I revisit it for the 10th time, and this time, for some reason, I'm able to start making progress.
I'd keep reading, but also, just do some dead simple tutorials in whatever space you are interested in. Codecademy was a great motivator for me, because though I had read a ton, I hadn't managed to really accomplishing anything on my own. With their hand-holding I was suddenly genuinely understanding concepts that had been very fuzzy to me up to that point.
Give it a shot :) Good luck!