Top Ten Tuesday:
Ten Books I Struggled to Get Through (Or Didn't Finish)
DID NOT FINISH
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
(I quickly read 100 pages and then stalled out)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
(I read this on a plane flight home from somewhere and I can't remember a thing.)
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
(It is too depressing what the Internet is doing to our brains. Sigh)
Gulp by Mary Roach
(I actually think I will get back to this one, someday. I enjoy this author a lot.)
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
(This is a tome weighing in at over 500 pages. I am currently reading it right now and wonder if I will finish it.)
Romeo and/Juliet: a Chooseable Path Adventure by Ryan North
(I read several of the adventures and all of them were stupid. I gave up or didn't know how to actually read the whole book.)
FINISHED, BUT IT WAS A CHORE
Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy
(A book club selection. I thought I would never finish the book. Ugh.)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
(I was disappointed that this book wasn't anything like the movie. The middle part was especially draggy. It was a miracle that I finished it.)
Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
(I had heard this was a hilarious book, written in the late 1800s. I am not sure if I laughed once.)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
(What a weird book. WEIRD. I finished it because it, too, was a book club selection.)
The Hotel on Place Vendome by Tilar Mazzeo
(Everyone was disappointed by this book which had so much potential to tell real WWII stories.)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
(I had a lot of trouble reading this book, even though the story was good. I don't like reading plays.)
