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Posted at 12:41 PM on Monday 10 August 2009
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It depends on the book ... on the forum you can see my post about unfinished books ... I have had a block to finishing The Silmarillion for years but I wanted to read it for the background to Tolkien's stories. I had to diarise myself to read a chapter a day to get through it. I cannot say I enjoyed it but I finally got over the block.
Occasionally I struggle to get into a story and put it down for a day or so and then find I pick it up and it is fine; two exceptions Catch 22 and Lord of the Flies - I disliked both of them intensely and have no interest in finishing them.
One of the books I struggled with this year was The Gathering (Anne Enright) - which I found full of complex characters, with hidden stories and seemingly little plot - their stories do mainly get revealed by the end of the book but I found the mid-section quite hard work.
I accidentally set a goal of reading a book a week during 2009 (I didn't originally set the goal I established a pattern and then turned it into a goal) and am currently aiming at around 70 books in the year - partly because when I get stuck with a book I am picking up another one rather than wasting the reading time. Now you might be thinking but surely that gets confusing ... I am finding that if I read a book I really enjoy and read it quickly as a result, it encourages me to keep on with the other.
It depends on the book ... on the forum you can see my post about unfinished books ... I have had a block to finishing The Silmarillion for years but I wanted to read it for the background to Tolkien's stories. I had to diarise myself to read a chapter a day to get through it. I cannot say I enjoyed it but I finally got over the block.
Occasionally I struggle to get into a story and put it down for a day or so and then find I pick it up and it is fine; two exceptions Catch 22 and Lord of the Flies - I disliked both of them intensely and have no interest in finishing them.
One of the books I struggled with this year was The Gathering (Anne Enright) - which I found full of complex characters, with hidden stories and seemingly little plot - their stories do mainly get revealed by the end of the book but I found the mid-section quite hard work.
I accidentally set a goal of reading a book a week during 2009 (I didn't originally set the goal I established a pattern and then turned it into a goal) and am currently aiming at around 70 books in the year - partly because when I get stuck with a book I am picking up another one rather than wasting the reading time. Now you might be thinking but surely that gets confusing ... I am finding that if I read a book I really enjoy and read it quickly as a result, it encourages me to keep on with the other.
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