Do any of you have a hard time putting a book down even if it's awful? When I read a book, I have to read every single page for some weird reason. I guess I think the author deserves it or what if I miss something important and don't get all of the context?!? I don't know. I'll pick up a great parenting book that I think will help, but if the chapter that will really help me is chapter 7, well, I've got to read 6 chapters first even if they're of no use to me. By chapter 2 or 3 I'm beginning to think that maybe this book isn't for me, and so I put it away, full of guilt for not finishing. Yet had I just read chapter 7 it would've solved my problem!! Ugh. I only have myself to blame.
I'm reading a juvenile lit novel right now that I'm just not getting into, and I'm pretty easy to entertain! Only I'm half way through it. I figure I've invested so much into this book, I might as well see how it turns out, but it's almost painful to pick it up again. I have so many books on my "To Read Next" list that are just sitting there waiting for me because of this stupid book, so Jeromy is trying to convince me to just forget about it and get a different book. But I just can't. I'd rather drag on this torture even longer so I can feed this weird neurosis of mine. Ya, I'm crazy.
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I did that with Inkheart. I did that years ago with Portrait of a Lady and vowed to never do it again, what a waste of my life. I am still really bad at it. But I was proud of myself to taking Despereaux back to the library only half way through because I just wasn't into it. THat's probably a first, or maybe only a second for me!
I used to have that same problem! Jane Austen is my all time favorite author and I was reading Emma. I had the hardest time and got about half way through before I finally said, "I can't stand Emma!! She is annoying and driving me nuts!". There are too many good books out there to waste my time with something I'm not enjoying! It's better for me to feel a little guilty about not finishing it than wish in the end that I hadn't read it at all.
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