So two weeks ago, I featured a Book Review Tuesday post composed of random reviews from some of the books I have read this year. They were utterly non-thematic, just a sample of the kinds of things I read regularly, designed to share my range and show you that I don’t love everything I read. It can be easy to forget that when one reads book blogs or book reviews or top tens, since many times we authors like to write about the things we love. We tend to be horrible proselytizers, one and all, trying to spread the good word about books in a world that does not read as much as it used to and in which books compete with a million other forms of media for attention, you see…

The plain truth is that when you read a lot, you almost inevitably end up reading some things that you don’t love or that just don’t resonate with you, either at the particular time you are reading them or sometimes at all. By rights I should just put a book down if I’m not loving it. I do, after all, always have a slew o’ books waiting to be read, either on the “to review” pile or just because I want to read them. But I often can’t bring myself to walk away from a book if I’m decently into it (say more than 1/3 in) – I guess I live in fear of walking away from something that would have turned out to be amazing… Wow – what a hot-bed mess of neurosis and insecurity I am. Teehee. Don’t tell anyone, ok?
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