Thursday, July 11, 2013

15-Day Book Blogger Challenge - Day 4

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Day 4 - Book Flinging

Honestly, I have never thrown a book across a room.  Across my bed maybe, but never across the room.  I've gotten really frustrated with books, but since I'm also super-careful about damaging them, I try not to fling them in a way that could hurt them.  Besides, there are even better ways to get out my frustration with my books; I've thrown them in the garbage, posted them immediately on PaperBackSwap.com, or simply shoved them back onto the shelf, never to be finished.  I'm going to share an example of each.



  • Flung across the bed
    • Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter -  Even though I liked this book, I got so frustrated with Kate's character and the introduction of Persephone, I "threw" this book across my bed multiple times.  Both characters whined way too much throughout, and Kate made so many stupid decisions that I just wanted to shake her.
  • Thrown in the garbage
    • Master of Many Treasures by Mary Brown -  It's rare for me to throw out a book, but this one was just too awful to keep or give away.  It started out fine, and then they introduced a new character who was perverse, and then the book itself got perverse.  So I stopped reading it and threw it in the garbage.
  • PaperBackSwap.com
    • Cinder & Sapphires by Leila Rasheed -  I understand that Downton Abbey is amazing, and therefore people want to make the most of its popularity.  But this book just felt like a YA copycat. It didn't have anything new or interesting to draw me in.  Plus, the writing was so-so, and the characters were stale.
  • Doomed to be unfinished
    • Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes -  Boring.  Boring.  Boring.  I started this book because I'd actually seen the movie first, and loved it.  So I brought it with me on vacation to read in the airport, and I just couldn't get through it.  The Polish workers who are the best characters in the movie make up a teeny chapter of her book, and another chapter was all about each place they found a well.  I gave up halfway through and decided that sitting in an airport with nothing to read would be way more exciting than reading this book.

4 comments:

  1. That's disappointing that Under the Tuscan Sun wasn't very good. I loved the movie.

    Jenna @ Rather Be Reading YA

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    1. It really was disappointing. There's no romance in the book at all; it was completely added for the movie. And the book just gets bogged down in renovation details.

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  2. Ashling, I'm glad that the Goddess Interrupted series was still enjoyable but disappointing regarding Cinder & Sapphires as I really wanted to read it, I thought it'd be similar to the Luxe series by Anna Godbersen.

    Day 4 Book Blogger Challenge

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    1. I haven't read the Luxe series, so I'm not sure if it's similar at all. I've always wanted to read that series, but haven't gotten to it yet.

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