Books #33

[LaBlonde]

I used to struggle with this too! But last year, I made a resolution to stop forcing myself to finish books I’m not enjoying—life’s too short, and my TBR is way too long. If I feel like revisiting a book later, I can always pick it back up (which I’ve done a few times). That said, not once has a book I DNF’d early on turned out to be amazing, so I’ve found that dropping it early is usually a good indicator that it just wasn’t for me.

this is the approach i’m trying to take too! i always used to try and push through, and i’ve read a few where they’re a slog for the first half but then turn into something beautiful at the end (still life being the one that comes to mind) but they’re rare and i get even more annoyed if i persevere and it stays hard work

if i do DNF a book (like i did with a few awful romances last year) i still skip and read the final two or three chapters just to see if i was justified. like you say, usually i am!!

 

[aalmaalm]

Does anyone recommend Fredrik Backman 'Anxious People'? It's showing as 99p on Amazon for me today. Do I need anymore books? Noooooo. But I'm wondering about getting this...

I’ve bought it because it was 99p it sounds like it’s a bit like the people on platform 5. Which I enjoyed!

 

[ToxicPony]

Does anyone recommend Fredrik Backman 'Anxious People'? It's showing as 99p on Amazon for me today. Do I need anymore books? Noooooo. But I'm wondering about getting this...

I absolutely love this book. If you've read any Fredrik Backman, it's more like Man Called Ove than Beartown. If you haven't read him before, he writes great characters, quirky and 'heartwarming' plots but with a bit of grit and humanity to them.

A lot of people on here liked 'Secrets of Strangers' by Charity Norman, Anxious People is a bit like a funnier, quirkier version of that.

 

[Boogs]

i LOVE that (and it’s so accurate 🥹)

i’m too scared to continue with the trilogy because i loved beartown but i also mainly absolutely adore benji and i know in my heart that he’s not going to have a happy ending and no thank you

I was all ready to jump straight into book two but when I opened it I couldn’t. Benji deserves some happiness

 

[emmer_moans]

I’ve bought it because it was 99p it sounds like it’s a bit like the people on platform 5. Which I enjoyed!

I absolutely love this book. If you've read any Fredrik Backman, it's more like Man Called Ove than Beartown. If you haven't read him before, he writes great characters, quirky and 'heartwarming' plots but with a bit of grit and humanity to them.

A lot of people on here liked 'Secrets of Strangers' by Charity Norman, Anxious People is a bit like a funnier, quirkier version of that.

I have bought it now. I have a lot of books on my TBR but I guess I couldn't resist the deal. I want to read Beartown but I will wait for it to appear on a deal. So far I have only started his The Answer Is No. I like his style.

 

[LaBlonde]

I was all ready to jump straight into book two but when I opened it I couldn’t. Benji deserves some happiness

i wanted him to run away with the bass player so badly 🥲 and, same. i fully intended to read at least the first two all at once but realised my heart couldn’t take it!

 

[Hannahebee]

I don't struggle to DNF books as I find that when they drag or I can't get into them it's best if I DNF them straight away.

 

[ScoutFinch]

My first read of the year is The Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. I’ve loved all her newer books, so trying to work through her back catalogue.

Just quoting myself to say I’ve finished The Winter Garden. I’ve never read a KH book that didn’t make me cry at some point, and this was no different. She really knows how to stamp on my heart

 

[Smca53]

Part of my struggle with DNF’ing also stupidly comes down to Goodreads. Like, I can’t rate it or mark it as read. But I did read part of it. But it would duck with my stats to mark it as read because I didn’t read it in full. Is this just me?

I think I’ve read that StoryGraph solves this problem, I really should give it a go

 

[wishiniwasskinny]

Part of my struggle with DNF’ing also stupidly comes down to Goodreads. Like, I can’t rate it or mark it as read. But I did read part of it. But it would duck with my stats to mark it as read because I didn’t read it in full. Is this just me?

I think I’ve read that StoryGraph solves this problem, I really should give it a go

I saw a tweet to Goodreads saying that what users really want is a DNF option!

 

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