When do you decide to give up on a book? There are books I actively dislike, books that made me dread picking them up. I can understand putting them in the donate / trash pile unread. But what about a book that you start reading and just don't get sucked into. One where all of your day to day problems are still foremost in your mind, even when they are only as pressing as what to pick up at the grocery store next time? A book that you think, oh I feel like reading, but then never actually bother to pick up - even after a week? It's not a bad book, just a book that hasn't captured your attention or imagination? Do you put it down and pick it up again later, hoping it is just the mood you are in? Do you persevere until you reach the end? Do you put it into the donate / trash pile?
This is the struggle I am having with Affinity by Sarah Waters - it's not a bad book, it is just a blah book. I could be my mood. It could be that I just haven't made it far enough in. I just don't know.
For now it is sitting on my bedside table, under tissue box, suduko daily calendar and collecting dust after over a week of sitting there.
2 comments:
I never really quite reading anything. I just put it aside for a while and try to get back to it eventually.
I did make it to the end of this one, but it was pretty forgettable, even though I like Sarah Waters enough to have several of her other books. Don't beat yourself up about not finishing it. :)
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