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Could Not Get Into This One: DNF at 25 Percent

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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I tried. Really. I hate it when I don’t get into a classic. I have been told for years that I should read Ursula K. Le Guin and how much I would like her and maybe I should just try something else. This book didn’t make any sense to me. I kept reading words and going what in the world does this mean? And some of the sentences/paragraphs felt overly written. I just finally decided that I wasn’t enjoying it and moved on to another […]

Masquerades as a True Christie Book, It is Not

Black Coffee by Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne

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This book sucked which is why I kicked it to the proverbial curb when I got to 40 pages in. I often say that a good DNF review can steer potential readers away from a book that the reviewer articulates why it would be a waste of time. Honestly, all you have to know is that Agatha Christie did not write this novel. Instead, Christie wrote a play called “Black Coffee.” However it was not turned into a novel. Decades later, Charles Osborne would take […]

Officially Did Not Finish, 2016

Evicted; Lydia's Enchanted Toffee; Bricking It by Matthew Desmond; Neale Osborn; Nick Spaulding

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A few years ago, I came to the realization that I did not have to finish a book, if I wasn’t enjoying it.  This was – to say the least – a startling revelation for me, because I had previously trudged through every. single. word. of every. single. book., even if I despised it.  It led to some pretty miserable reading days.  But since I’ve stopped doing that, I not only read more, I enjoy what I’m reading more, because I know that I’m reading […]

This is not a romance. This hero is not romantic.

Managed by Kristen Callihan

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Can we all agree that the bad boy redeemed can be a problematic trope? Confusing a romantic bad boy with an abuser probably goes back farther than Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff, but he’s a good example. Kristen Callihan’s Gabriel Scott is the knock off Heathcliff here. I am the Anne Bronte. I am not sure why I bought this the minute I had coins in my pocket. I didn’t love the first book in the series, and I really didn’t like Gabriel Scott, aka Scottie, our purported […]

The Flowers are just Weeds

Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews

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Two different podcasts I listened to talked about this book and the two made-for-TV movies based on it.  I’d never read it. I do like to read books that are generally considered “terrible” or “so bad it’s good” and I know so many people who like (if not love) this series. People? Can I ask you? Why? I was reading the ebook and I made it to 49% of the way through and had to stop. I was bored and irritated. I didn’t care about […]



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