Stopped reading again

[dawtheminstrel]

I'm getting pickier and pickier as a reader. At one time, I finished pretty much any book I started. Then I took to giving a book 50 pages before I asked myself, "If I lost this book, would I care enough to replace it?" If the answer was no, I stopped reading. In the last two months, I've probably set aside at least half the books I started.

Comments

[dot_o_choillmor]

I used finish every book. But now I figure it's the author's job to get me interested and if they fail at that, I'm not reading :-)

Having said that, I'm pretty picky about what I read in the first place so I skim through the first few pages before deciding whether or not to chance it.

Plus, I rarely buy books.

[dawtheminstrel]

Well, you have an advantage, you lucky librarian. You must have a pretty good sense of what's out there and what it's like.

it's the author's job to get me interested

That's what I've come to think too. I used to blame myself when something made no sense or I was bored for a stretch of the book. But I don't do that any more.

[frenchpony]

I usually finish most books I read. Eventually. But sometimes, it really takes a long time, or the book has to go back to the library, and then . . . eh.

You're reading mostly YA these days, right?

[dawtheminstrel]

I always check out the new YA, but I look around at SFF, mysteries and the lit/fic shelves too.

If you don't regret taking back an unfinished book to the library, that's a sign of something!

[frenchpony]

The Chicago Public Library allows three renewals for about three weeks each. If I can't finish a book in nine weeks, then either it's not a very good book, or school has been piling on again.

[perelleth]

IN my case, either I know the author, or read a good review or someone whose taste I trust recomends, then I skim through the pages, not just the first, but the middle too, and sometimes even the ending, to see if I by chance run into something that puts me off, and then, all tests passed, I read. I'm in a cranky mood lately as well...that's when I turn to essays, science, and -less often- poetry.

I'm looking forward to re-reading GRRM's books this summer and then plunge into "Dance" , though.

[dawtheminstrel]

I'm really enjoying rereading GRRM. It's such a complicated world that it needs two readings and stands up to them well.

But I've been trying to take a break between each book because Westeros is a nasty place.