As I sit here in the frigid air of our not-well-insulated old house, fingernails turning blue, teeth chattering, I realize I've also been frozen in this one book I've been reading for SUCH a long time!
If you've visited my blog for a while, you've seen it--Tarzan's Tonsilitis--on my reading list since I don't know when. Not good! (I don't mean the book isn't good--it is!) So what's the problem?
The most obvious issue is that I've made it my before-bed read. And these days, once I get under the covers, there's no energy left!
Next problem is that it has a distinct voice to it (and is translated to English, so has some unusual wording at times) and it takes me a few pages to jump back into the character's heads.
But really, book, it's not you, it's me. I just need to give myself more time to read (while upright might be a good start!). I definitely find that more reading equals better writing. So--no more dawdling--I'm going to finish it and move on to the next book in the stacks!
Now, you tell me--have you ever had a book you couldn't seem to get through?
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Yup, have four waiting patiently by my bed and one on my ebook, all in various "frozen" stages. (Two going on a year now-bet they miss me.)
I just returned one to the library that I only spent three chapters with.
All are fantastic books, written by incredible authors but I lost the taste for them. (life's like that!)
I read depending on my moods, on what I'm writing. Hoping one day I feel like fiding out how they end, but honestly, I don't have time to spent on books that don't excite something in me (in that moment- tomorrow might be a different mood, right?).
I know a book is for me when I gobble it up in one sitting. Ah, the magic.
Ta-da! I finally finished reading this book! It only took a snowstorm snowpocalypse day at home to achieve this goal...
Ahhh!
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