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And another thing, I couldn’t even finish this book

And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer

April 4, 2020 by KimMiE" 3 Comments

Not long ago on Facebook, someone posed the question, “When do you give up on a book and stop reading?” I thought about this and determined that, if I look at how many pages I have left in a book and I’m actively dreading it, that’s when I quit. I had 188 pages left in And Another Thing when I just couldn’t stand it anymore. God knows I don’t quit a book likely. I’ve slogged through my share of banality and dreck just to give […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #didnotfinish, cbr12, DNF, douglas adams, eoin colfer, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #didnotfinish, cbr12, DNF, douglas adams, eoin colfer, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, KimMiE" ·
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A pair of DNFs

I Like it Like That / The World According to Monsanto by Claire Calman / Marie-Monique Robin

August 12, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I’m pairing these two lackluster books here because although very different (a paperback romance and a non-fiction expose), they were alike in 1) that they’ve been in my TBR for years; 2) I finally started to read them; and 3) I did not finish either.  I’m usually a fairly strict book finisher, even if it’s a hate-read (Faulkner, I’m looking at you).  With these two, I realized that my hate-finish policy was not assisting me- my TBR pile is too big to read books I’m […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #didnotfinish, cbr11bingo, Claire Calman, I Like it Like That, Marie-Monique Robin, Reading the TBR, The World According to Monsanto

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:35 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: #didnotfinish, cbr11bingo, Claire Calman, I Like it Like That, Marie-Monique Robin, Reading the TBR, The World According to Monsanto ·
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