I remember reading this book. It was a hard read, and I would not have persevered had it not been for the fact that I felt I needed to read it to understand my students. I once taught a student whose father killed his mother. He was in foster care, and he had all sorts of trouble. Unfortunately, this has become something that too many kids face in today's society. I will never regret that I read this book. It was one of my first reviews on this blog.
The other books I did not finish. This was the first of those. I was on a very long waiting list to read this, and when it arrived, I was ready to stop all my other reading and just devour this book. Imagine my surprise when I was on page 70 and I couldn't get into it. I was so disappointed, and I decided that I would not read it. After all, with a classic book, I say it usually takes about 50 pages to get into it. I gave this book till page 70, and I have enough interesting books to read that I didn't have time to invest in a book that I didn't enjoy.
Today I met the second book in recent times that I just couldn't get into. I had started this book last week, and the premise was intriguing. And it fit in with one of my challenges. I will say that I enjoyed the two main characters, but I got tired of the senseless profanity and the other characters in the book. I was around page 80, and I decided to set it aside.
Now, if I was reading these books for a publisher review or something like that, I would have persevered. But what is the point of reading a book you don't like just to be reading it? There are enough books in this world to read that I think setting a few aside that I don't like is not shameless.
I begin this book tonight. Here's hoping it will be better!
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't like The Cookbook Collector--I just bought it because my book club is going to be reading it. That means, of course, that I'll have to finish it no matter what!
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