Saturday, October 15, 2011

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon

4 comments:

Sam (Tiny Library) said...

Advice I should follow more often!

Trish said...

Yes! I see no reason to slog through a book that isn't reaching you on some level. Too many people feel it's a 'failure' if they abandon a book. Why? One could pass the book along to someone who might enjoy it or donate it to a charity or hand it in for a credit at a used book store or even just put it aside to try again another time. There's no shame in any of it. See the Reader's Bill of Rights on the sidebar, #1 & #10 :)

Alexis @ Reflections of a Bookaholic said...

Oh I always finish a book I start. I understand why people don't. But I've been pleasantly surprised sometimes how much a book can improve. I'm also strange in that I treat everything as a life lesson (meaning I over think everything!) and I feel like there is something I can get out of every book. I don't think of it as a failure. It's almost a challenge. I have set down a book and come back to it which almost always works out for me.

I don't know. I think it is a personal preference that is hard to explain but it's what I do.

Trish said...

That's what's so great about books. There are so many titles and authors and genres to choose from and there isn't any one right or wrong way to approach reading them.