I am a champion DNFer. If a book isn’t working for me I have no qualms walking away from it. But I have a few here that I mean to be reading – that I think I should be reading – but that I just haven’t finished and haven’t given up on. They are living in limbo.
I’ve liked a few TJ Kline books and DNFed others. This one I own in hardcover so it is just sitting around my house. It has been sitting in my living room untouched for months. I moved it to the bathroom so I thought I’d read it a bit more but I haven’t. It is just a slog. Just finish dying, will you?
I bought this for myself and was really excited and then … just haven’t started it yet.
I have a bunch of other books that I really want to read on my shelf that I just haven’t. I think the factors that have made me not pick them up are that they are:
- pretty heavy subjects
- paper books instead of ebooks
Here are some examples. They are all good books that I am interested in. It is just easier to grab a fun ebook instead.
Yep! I’ll never read all the books I want to, even if I live to be 500 years old. LOL.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
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I hope you can read these books soon and that they are all that you wish they would be.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/whoops-thirteen-books-i-meant-to-read-in-2023/
DNFing books is a good skill to have and I have certainly gotten better with doing that over the years. I hope you are able to get to these books this year and you enjoy them.
I am DEFINITELY more likely to read a book if it’s an ebook rather than a physical book. Why? I don’t know. But it’s true!
My TTT
I have this problem sometimes, too. But if you have the time + mental energy for it, I totally recommend trying the Terry Pratchett bio in 2024; it really is one of the best biographies I’ve read in a while.
I’m so bad about that. I’ll start a book, then get an ARC or a library hold and abandon it. Hopefully you can get to these and knock them off your list soon.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Heavy subject books are always difficult to pick up. But I feel that in the end I always end up glad that I did read them.
I tend to put off reading heavier books, too.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.