I can't finish a book to save my life these days. I start them, I get 100 or so pages in, and then I leave them on my bedside table, untouched, while they gather dust.
I've started the 50 Shades series and couldn't get past the Red Room of Pain chapter...
I've started the 50 Shades series and couldn't get past the Red Room of Pain chapter...
I did actually finish the first Hunger Games after much bullying from my sweet friend JBW, because she wanted me to go see the movie with her, and I refuse to see a movie based on a book, before I've read the book. But I've started the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy, and can't get past page 20something.
Then there's Kelly Cutrone's If You Have to Cry, Go Outside that I find quite entertaining (it was recommended to me by my inspirational and empowering friend, NM), but I have yet to finish it. Shame on me.
And then there's my very favorite book that I love to pick up and put down and that I've thumbed through for (literally) years but have left unfinished, Confucius Lives Next Door. It's an ethnography that was assigned as reading in a college humanities class that I genuinely find intriguing. Yet I have never finished it cover to cover. What is my problem?
The point of all of this is: I need a book to help me get my reading groove back. Something good, something that will suck me in from page one, something that I won't possibly be able to put down. A story whose end I will need to know.
I love great recommendations, so please...recommend away! And please tell me a little 'why' about your recommendation so that it helps inspire me to pick it up?
xoxo.
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Right now I'm reading Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith and I love it. It's his memoir about anxiety, so unless you have any experience with/interest in anxiety, it might not be your book . . . but for me, it's perfect.
I'm on the hunt for Gone Girl, which everyone is talking about! It's supposed to be so thrilling & I can't wait to get my hands on it.
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
I LOVE it, and I did a review on it about 2 weeks back on my blog I think. I have a friend who has read it 4 times. I'm in love with the story and characters, mostly because it reminds me a lot about my college crushes. It might not be the same for you, but just thought I'd share :)
15 years ago, a woman told me it was her quest to get everyone she knows to read "A Prayer For Owen Meany" by John Irving. About 2 yrs ago I was looking for a good book and saw it on a top 100 list. The first page grabbed me; it consumed -in a good way- my free time. Several times, people who saw me reading it, started telling me how they had loved it. It's a beautiful story that uses irony and humor and keeps you intrigued right to the final word. I felt like a 12 year old kid reading it. It's about childhood, innocence, and changing that we all related to. Try a couple pages. I hope you enjoy it!
Girl, I know the feeling...once you know it let me know. I find books with markers in them and I'm usually around page 40something or 102something and that's then it. :( Sucks.
Let me know.
Hmmm.... I was having this problem this summer and it drove me nuts. But it was Fifty Shades that got me passed it so that isn't going to help you out.
If you like historical fiction, one of my favorite books ever is The Bronze Horseman. Maybe that would help you :)
http://latache-t.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-am-reading-machine.html
they are heavy books...but GREAT! They definitely keep you turning the pages!! Right now I am reading: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
The hunger games was the best worst book I ever read!! If you get to the end you will know what I mean!!
Ugh I am the same! I started The Lucky one then couldn't get past the 2nd chapter. so it goes on my stack of others I cant finish, that ill get around to "soon"
Ahhhh I JUST posted about this. I wish I had found your blog a few days ago. I'm going through the same thing, it's awful. It's like the book turns into another language after a few minutes. I hope it stops soon.
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