Also, please don't forget that I am giving away a copy of The Art of Disappearing by Ivy Pochoda. See the main giveaway post for details. Please sign up on the giveaway post, not here. Thanks!
The question for this week's Book Blog Hop comes from The Paperback Princess, who asks:
"When you read a book that you just can't get into, do you stick it out and keep reading or move to your next title?"
Since I very rarely abandon a book, it would be an understatement to say I "stick it out." In general, I have a funny, personal rule that I won't even look to see how many pages a book has until after I get past page 100. By then, I'm either interested, or have so much time and effort invested in the book that I finish it.
However (with lawyers, there's always a "however"), since I started blogging and sometimes get books I didn't ask for and am not particularly interested in to start with, I have gotten better about abandoning a book if it too much of a slog to get to page 100. I can think of a particularly dry economic history of India and a biblical history textbook that I jettisoned early on. It was freeing.