This week's question is: What keeps you reading beyond the first few pages of a book, and what makes you want to stop reading a book and put it back on the shelf?
If I am not sucked in to the story in the first few pages, I will stop reading. I very rarely stop reading a book in the middle and put it back on the shelf. I always feel like if I can make that far into a book, then I should just finish it. The times that I have stopped and not finished a book have occurred when the book is so bad that I just don't want to read it and will find anything to do besides reading (which is normally not how I roll). Currently there are two books on my shelf that I plan to finish but that I couldn't get through the first time.
What do you all think?
I'm the eternal optimist and keep telling myself it will get better, I need to be tougher!
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I always try to stick with it also.
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hopping by. I'm currently reading In the Garden of Beasts. It's taken me a while to get through it. What do you think of it so far?
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If I'm already into a book, I will try and finish it too.
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Hopping through. I rarely give up books because I don't like the beginning. I'm usually assuming it will get better. But the middle is the time when I'll give it up.
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Rebecca, "In the Garden of Beasts" is taking me forever to get through. The premise is really interesting but it's a pretty slow moving book.
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