So I've been having a hard time picking up and finishing a book the last week or so. I started Sacred Hearts finally after reading a review at The Burton Review (she does amazingly wonderful, in depth reviews!) and it sold me on the book. However, I got through Part I and put it down. It just didn't captivate me the way I'd hoped it would. Has anyone else read it? Did it pull you in later? I really want to finish it, but I'm going to step away from it for a bit and the come back to it later I think. I can tell it's an amazing story, so I want to appreciate it fully.
The next book I started on Friday was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, which I've been eyeing every time I hit the bookstore, but something pulls me away. My best friend gave me her copy after she moved and was downsizing her book and dvd shelves (something I'm loathe to do, but really need to). I've been reading it, and it's a fascinating story, but it's overwhelming (which is the point, if I'm not mistaken) and so I took a break from that as well at the moment and think I will come back to it tomorrow.
I picked up Jane Porter's Easy on the Eyes yesterday at Borders and am already a quarter of the way through it. I love it! I did goof though b/c I won a copy of Odd Mom Out from Wrighty's Reads in her Mother's Day Giveaway, and evidently should have read that first. Now I know a bit of the ending in that story and I was waiting until I picked up Mrs. Perfect to read that because it looks like they go hand in hand.
I went on a bit a spending spree this week with all the sales at the bookstores, and the books from Wrighty's (thanks!!)
From Barnes and Noble I bought:
The Break Up Club by Melissa Senate
Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff
School of Fortune by Amanda Brown
I'm Not Julia Roberts by Laura Ruby
Flying Changes by Sara Gruen
Accidental It Girl by Libby Street
Special Relationship by Robin Sisman
From Book Closeouts
The Romantics by Galt Niederhoffer
Cost by Roxanna Robinson
Mrs. Perfect by Jane Porter
The Smart One and The Pretty One by Claire LaZebnik
I can't wait to add these to my seemingly never ending pile of TBRs!
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Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner is really good. The sequel is, too! I really want to read Best Friends Forever by her but can't afford to buy a new hardcover... hoping my library gets it in!
I have to say that I am with you with not finishing a book this past week. I don't feel like reading for some reason, which is really weird for me. I hope this funk goes away. I started a new book so maybe I can get back into reading again.
I tried to read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night as well and put it down. It just was not interesting or holding my interest. I have spoken to a lot of people and they said the same thing. I have not read Sacred Hearts so I can't help with that one.
Ooh, I'm jealous of all this yummy reading ahead of you! I really enjoyed The Curious Incident... as I recall it took a chapter or two to get into it, then the pages flew by for me. But I do hear you about being mid-way through lots of books. I usually have four or five books going at a time -- one in the car for when I'm waiting for my kids at camp, etc., one in the beach bag, a stack on the nightstand, one by the couch, etc...
I was amazed at the reaction of Sacred Hearts, it is one of those that is you either Love or hate it!! Amazing! I guess the time was right for me to just sit back and enjoy reading about the inner conflicts of the nuns and just absorbing the atmosphere of the story. This was definitely not an eventful type of book, it was indeed slow moving which I guess bored some people out of their mind!
But if you have other books to read, and enjoy faster novels, I realize now that this may not be the book for you. Don't feel bad about not finishing, and it just may be something that you need to wait for the right moment. I still loved it though and just wish that everyone did. Thanks for the shout out though!
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