This is a weekly meme hosted by Crazy for Books. This is a chance for people to visit other book-related blogs that they normally wouldn't find and/or visit on their own. To participate, a question must be answered. This week's question is:
"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?"
My Answer: This answer can go both ways for me ... Before I started this blog, if I was reading a book and I couldn't get into it, I'd stop reading it. But, now, knowing that I have followers who read my reviews, I tend to force myself thru the book even if I can't get into it.
Why?
Because I don't feel that I can give an adequate review of a book if I don't read all of the material. This may be the first-born OCD gene coming out in me, but it's true. And, I'm not saying that if you're a reviewer and you don't finish a book that you're wrong. It's just that, for me, I feel that since the author gave up their time and energy into actually writing the book (even if it is bad) and they sent it to me to read and review, the least I can do is finish it. They may get a long email in return stating every single thing I didn't like about it, but at least I can say I finished it.
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Found you through the hop. If an author or publicist sends me a book after I agreed to review it, I certainly feel obligated to finish. On one occasion I didn't, simply because the book was so bad. But if you get to a point where you're getting unsolicited books, don't feel obligated to finish. Happy reading! http://www.asiturnthepages.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteSee, I do my reviews for me on my blog... as a way to keep track of what I've read and what happened in the story and what I thought about it... so I never feel I owe it to my readers, I feel like they're there because they enjoy what I'm writing for myself, XD
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