This past year I found myself abandoning way more books than before. Just novels though, maybe more than 50%. Just stopped another one yesterday (The Leftovers) at less than 2 hours left because I could feel I was not interested in knowing how it ended.
All the nonfiction I read were bangers though.
I’m all for putting down something we don’t like – but I’m just curious if anyone saw the same increase as me!
by Sikuriadas83
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Also around 50%
Many. I have gotten super picky in my old age and no longer tolerate a lot of things from books. I also feel like it’s really easy to abandon now that i use libby, because i always have another 3 or 4 to choose from on my kindle.
Maybe about 10ish, which was disturbingly high for me. I did manage to finish like 53ish though.
Almost all of them. This year was a terrible year🥲
Last year I had my highest completion rate in 10 years and only abandoned 1 book (Trails of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse) and not because I didn’t like it, I just got distracted by another book (Artemis by Andy Weir) that was the best book I’ve read in a very long time.
I have ADHD and aphantasia (no visual component to my thoughts/imagination) so this greatly affects my serial put down behavior.
I would say I put down 4 out of 6 books acquired. Sometimes more. The very moment I start getting bored or styles I don’t like appear, or, because of the aphantasia, if a book is reliant on heavy description, it’s DNF.
The past year has been probably the worse put down count. I’ve been in a palpable reading rut for a year and a half almost. Before it started, I had read five books in a row that I rated 5-stars. I feel like that has to be a coincidence though. Unless having book after book giving a hard dopamine kick somehow changed my tolerance for mediocrity? No idea. All I know is that I’m starting to feel I’m losing my love of reading. Kind of hard to like it when everything feels so blah.
The book I’m reading right now isn’t bad at all, but it’s so exactly like the movie Annihilation (not the book) that it can be somewhat distracting. I absolutely loved Annihilation so it’s not a bad thing.
Only one. I found *Red Wolf, Black Leopard* by Marlon James too distasteful to enjoy. The thing is 600 pages and I got about 180 in before I had to stop.
I’m no stranger to violence and SA but goddamn that book *relished* in it…and not in a compelling way, like how certain Cormack McCarthy stories will, but more in the “yup, that’s a really gross thing that that guy did just now, mhm” kinda way.
Like 4? I am not a picky person when it comes to books at all, so unless a book is really getting on my nerves, I will finish it.
I like to read just about anything, adjust my expectations and see how can I enjoy it to the end. There are some books that only really became 5* reads with their last chapters that I’d missed out on otherwise.
1 books out of 22. It was also the first time I’ve ever DNFed, glad I finally got myself to DNF a book.
None. I’m surprised that people put down so many books. What is everyone’s processes for picking up a book?