What the heck was going on today? Or was it just on my end? Websites were closed. Temporarily being serviced, or just not loading, or abducted by aliens... it's all entirely possible!
Okay, I digress.
I finished a book the other day, which, of course, means I got to start a new one. When you have as many to-be-read books as I do (bookaholics anonymous anyone?) it is quite a task trying to figure out what is going to entertain you for the next short while.
This time I chose "Obernewtyn" because one of the goodreads groups was reading it. I flipped open the pages, read the prologue... and set it down. I'm not saying there was anything wrong with it, not at all. I love a well-written Apocalypse book with a strong heroine, I just wasn't in the mood. So, I reached for the book beside it, "Give a Boy a Gun" (a book that I have had on my currently reading category for nearly half a year. I started reading and it took, like a happy blood transfusion.
Why?
My mood?
The genre?
The writing?
Why do you stop reading a book? Aside from the obvious "You thought it sucked."
5 comments:
I try to finish every book I start, even if I don't like it.
And I agree that when you have a huge TBR pile, it's hard to decide what to read next. I usually use random.org to decide.
My time is better spent on writing. I am having a difficult time right now. I have so many books I want to read, but no time in which to do so.
Emily -I think I will pick this book up again, and soon, but, I confess, I don't finish every book. Some just don't fit for me.
I should try random.org though.
I am usually writing as well, or, now, I'm usually doing cover art, but there are spaces in the day where I can't be writing or doing cover art (often if I travel with my husband to a hotel) Then it's Sponge Bob or fiction book. I choose Fiction!!
I stop reading a book when it doesn't engage me. It could be poor character development, too much telling, anything. I used to finish a book no matter what, but I now find it a waste of time to read something I dislike.
I agree with that Media. Often though those books that I don't finish keep replaying in my head, much the same for movies that we turn off. Mind you, books that end in a dissatisfying way also do that to me.
I start a lot of books, often at the same time, and I can juggle them well enough. When one isn't what I'm in the mood for I pick up another, if it keeps my attention I keep reading, if it doesn't, I pick up another. Eventually I finish most of them. Right now I'm holding off on Shan Sa's Empress, because I KNOW it's not going to get happier after the point I last left it. My heroine is going to die a sad death. Some day I'll be able to handle that and I'll finish that book. In the meantime... other books are in the tryouts.
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