well, nuts!

Since finishing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I have been having miserable luck getting into another book. Read 65 pages of The Memory of Water...gave up. Read 65 pages of Moo...gave up. Am now trying to read The Rapture of Canaan and so far, not getting into it...but will give it 65 pages too. I hate it when I don't have a good book to read! Or maybe The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo spoiled other books for awhile? No, surely not....

Quit reading books I don't care about!

I have started 3 books already this month and have put them down and am not returning to them. Time is too precious to continue to read books that I don't care about. I began The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville...just didn't care about it. Began Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer and realized that it was a young person's book, and again, just didn't care about it. Started A Mercy by Toni Morrison. It was good, but I realized that each time I picked it up, I couldn't figure out who was the narrator of that part and finally just gave up.

I have to get over this sense of feeling badly when I quit a book. There are just too many books out there that I really truly want to read. I don't need to spend my precious reading time on books I don't care about. I am trying to get better about this. It very rarely happens that I end up liking a book that I struggled through. It feels like a failure on my part when I give up on a book. I need to realize that it is a GOOD thing, a strength to quit when I first realize I don't care!