Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week’s topic is a Freebie.
I went through past topics and decided to do Books I DNF’d Too Quickly.
There are some books that I choose to not finish, knowing that I will never pick them up again. Then there are others that I know for a fact it was just me, not the book, and I might like to revisit them again someday.
Here are a few, in no particular order…
- A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreighton
- The Night Before by Wendy Walker
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter
- The Dreamers by Karen Walker Thompson
- Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with these books, but for whatever reason I couldn’t get into them at the time.
What did you pick for the freebie topic this week? Tell me in the comments or drop a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post so I can check it out!
Hannah's Library 
I do this too. Sometimes I’m just not in the right mood for a particular book.
Here’s my TTT: https://www.myheartisbooked.com/top-ten-tuesday-enemies-to-lovers-books-you-probably-havent-read-yet/
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It really does make a difference. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
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I DNF’d A Casual Vacancy too. It’s been years and I still don’t feel like I’m in the mood to read it.
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Glad I wasn’t the only one! I don’t own it anymore, but I would be willing to give it another try sometime.
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I definitely DNF’ed The Casual Vacancy. I really slugged through until about halfway and then just couldn’t force myself anymore. I had always wanted to pick it back up, but in light of recent JK Rowling tweets, I won’t do that anymore.
My TTT: https://ichlese.blog/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-my-favorite-seasonal-book-movie-sustenance-pairings/.
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It was hard to get through, I don’t think I even made it 1/4 of the way into the book. And that is definitely understandable about why you wouldn’t want to try it again. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
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I think I did the same thing with Little Fires Everywhere.
My TTT .
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I am going to try it again at some point, just not sure when 🙂
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I hope you will like them if you pick them back up!
My post!
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Thanks! 🙂
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I totally get that DNF too quickly thing. I kind of sort of did that with a book recently… Well, I skipped to the end at 25% in. I loved how things worked out, so I should have really read the entire book. Oh well.
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It’s hard when you aren’t in the mood but you do genuinely want to read it. I still own most of these, so there’s a good chance I’ll circle back to them at some point 🙂
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I tend to DNF books pretty fast if they’re not holding my attention. Too fast sometimes, probably. Still, I hate wasting my reading time on books I don’t love, you know?
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I’m the same way! I used to wait forever hoping a book would get better but now I give it about 50 pages before deciding.
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Oh, do give Little fires Everywhere another chance, it’s well worth it 😀
Here’s my TTT if you want to take a look https://readwithstefani.com/10-books-i-want-to-read-by-the-end-of-2020/
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I definitely want to! It’s still on my bookshelf 🙂
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I was really disappointed with The Casual Vacancy and The Underground Railroad. I should have DNFed them. I didn’t like the first half of Little Fires Everywhere, but I loved the ending.
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Interesting! I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one! Also that’s great to know about Little Fires Everywhere, that’s the main one I want to try again 🙂
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