Well, I’m not huge DNFer, I mean, I try to finnish every book that I start, even when I’m not loving it. I know this is not that smart, sometimes is what drags me into a huge reading slump, but I’m quite stubborn. So although I went into this year with a mentality that “if you’re not liking it, just stop reading it”, I only DNFd three books that I can recollect, and one of them wasn’t even because I wasn’t liking it. Well, next year I’ll do better.
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
So this was exactly the one that I DNFd not because I wasn’t enjoying it but because Scribd stopped having it. I was listening to it on audio last year, and then I moved places to work in January and didn’t have time to listen to it. When I went back into a routine and wanted to cotinue with the audiobook… it just wasn’t there aymore.
I’ve listened to all of the books in this series in audiobook format in Scribd, and they are light enjoyable reads. I wanted to do the same with this one, but no luck so far.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
This one I’m kind of ashamed, since it’s a classic and a favorite for many people. However, I picked it up in the beggining of the year and couldn’t pass page 15; its writing it’s incredibly dense, with slang words I couldn’t really grasp, and just too much work for what I wanted out of the book. I’ll try again later, I promise.
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward
Aaaaand there’s one I DNFd just because I couldn’t stand it anymore.
This appeared to me on Scribd as a suggestion after I had listened to Big Summer, a read I really enjoyed. This one seemed like a light summery read about family-ties, which I’m a sucker for, and I decided to try it. Well, it was a torture to listen to.
I think I reached halfway of the audiobook, but all the time I was making mental notes of the things that set me of, that I didn’t enjoy. When it reached a particular scene that I really didn’t vibe with, I just turned it off and picked something else. The characters felt untrue, like charicatures of people, and all the scenes seemed like they were taken from a bad movie. Not for me, at all.
Diagnosis: Bookworm 