November Group Read: First Check-In

[kalloway]

Here we are, one week in. Have you finished or started anything? How are you feeling? (It is perfectly fine if the answers are "no", "nope", and "augh", of course.)


For added optional discussion, if you'd like- Do you ever DNF (Did Not Finish) books? If so, what makes you DNF something and when? Style? Content? Not grabbing you after x% of pages? Something else? Or are you the type of reader who finishes everything you start, no matter what?

Comments

[rmc28]

I read the first chapter of She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, which was overdue from the library with eight people waiting for it. It was also on 99p at Amazon that day, so I bought it, and then returned the book that evening. When I did that, I found there was a new Penric & Desdemona novella from Lois McMaster Bujold: Knot of Shadows. I bought and read that immediately.

I am currently part way through The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, from the library, and am quite enjoying it so far. A small group of elderly retired people meet weekly to try to solve cold cases, but then a real murder happens in the neighbourhood and they try to solve that too.

I DNF books if I'm not liking them, or nothing's grabbing me, or I realise I put it down to do something else a few weeks ago and when I picked it up again I wasn't motivated to carry on. Or, sometimes the writing style is so very much Not For Me that I bounce off in the first few chapters (or, occasionally, paragraphs). I feel no obligation whatsoever to finish everything I start, life is too short for that and I don't get enough time to read as it is. Most books, I start, I read, I finish, everything's good. If that's not happening because I'm finding something about the book annoying, then I'll DNF.

[kalloway]

Well that sounds like it worked quite well and possibly even better!

The Thursday Murder Club sounds like it'd be right up my mother's alley, I'll have to ask if she's up for novel reading at all.