I usually have a book or two that are next in line to be read. I picked up the next one and have felt as if I am devouring it! It is very well written, has interesting characters and a twisting plot. I have only about twenty pages left to go.
The next book in line comes recommended by a friend and I'm looking forward to reading it also. But it's kind of in the same era as the last ones I've read recently. I like a change of genre. I think I'll have to find a modern era book before I delve back into historical fiction.
Any good recommendations for what should be on my reading list for this year? Mind you, I like novels but hate biographies and self help or instructional books.
Do any of my avid reader blog buddies do the same thing, give up on a boring book? Or do you trudge through it to the bitter end? If you've kept going, does it get any better at or near the end?
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I like to read but I don't like it as much as I want to. There a been a few books that didn't hold my interest and because, like you, I have other books waiting I move on to the next. Sorta like channel surfing.
Do you read one book at a time or do you have several going?
as I said to dr. spo last week, your time is a valuable commodity, and as such to waste it on a boring book is nonprofitable.
my current book is "appetite for america", about fred harvey and his harvey house restaurants along the santa fe railroad in the late 1800s. fred was the forerunner of chain restaurants such as howard johnson. VERY interesting reading!
I recently wrote about this myself - I tend to stay with books even when I am not enjoying it - to get to the ending. I am learning the wisdom of letting go of a book that doesn't hold me. There are too many books and life is not long enough to stay with bad books.
In matters of recommendations, you opened a hornet's nest - I will send you more than you want......
I like memoires and poetry....probably you won't like these sort of things....but I'm reading "A Season in Hell" by Rimbaud. French poet who wrote this masterpiece when he was a teen....he basically gave into the sins of the world, and rebelled against Church in order to find himself!
When I do happen to read (for leisure), I tend to read science fiction. Or comedic science fiction, if there is such a thing. And historical fantasy.
These are all older, but I recommend: Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Wilbur Smith's The Seventh Scroll and The Quest.
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