As some of you know and others can determine by looking at my current reading list, I often am reading more than one book at a time (though not at the SAME time). Often, one or two of these are slow reading and haven't really grabbed my interest. On occassion I've been stuck with an entire reading list that is a chore to wade through (I know, I know, there's nothing that says I have to finish reading a book that I don't like -- nothing except my own sense of literary duty).
On this particular instance I am reading four books (Arthur & George; Saga of the Volsungs; The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories; The Historian)that have all captured my interest and are very good reads. In fact I struggle with choosing which to read when I have a moment to sit and read. This is a nice feeling.
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One of the best lessons I learned while studying Middle School Education back in the mid-'90s was that it's okay not to finish reading a book you don't like. That's not something that we teach kids it seems to me. It was something of a revelation to me when I was in my mid-30s.
It certainly is a good thing, especially for struggling, young readers.
There are books that I haven't finished reading, but I usually just put them away for another time. My hope is always that it is me, or my frame of mind that just isn't ready for the book. If it is that the book is just plain bad, then I have no problem speed-reading/skimming through it.
One of the few books I've ever abandoned was Wilderness by Roger Zelazny and Gerald Hausman. Odd, since Rog is one of my all-time favorite writers.
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