Book Club

[SWEET]

My top 5 that I couldn't even finish:

American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins (I think I'm in the minority).   Not my type of book.

Body Politic - Brian Platzer

The Reckoning - John Grisham

The Guest Book - Sarah Blake (again in the minority I think)

The Night Olivia Fell - Christina McDonald (I was dying to read this and it fell short for me).

[Alison Wonderland]

Oh, fun list!

Books that made by Did Not Finish list this year:

A Case of Murder by Monte Carlo, by Becki Willis

Edinburgh Twilight, by Carole Lawrence

Murder at the Mission, by Pamela Martin

Flat Crazy, by Ben Rehder

Trouble in Mudbug, by Jana Deleon

Books I finished, but rated poorly on Goodreads:

The Battle for the Alamo Taqueria, by Nick Iuppa and John Pesqueira

A Rage in Harlem, by Chester Himes

Halloween Hayride Murder, by Linnea West

[Travone]

Two for me, and I'm sure others loved both of these:

Educated

Little Fires Everywhere

[ahoymate]

You can usually tell within a few pages if the book holds your interest or not. Why continue reading a "worst book?"

[Janey2]

@ahoymate  I agree with you. I can usually tell if I cannot read a book by page 25. I am sure I did not read many good books that got better. That being said, I did not like Where the Crawdads Sing, and I read it. I thought that most people loved it so I thought it would get better as I read it. It was the worst book I read this year.

[silkyk]

So many books....so little time. My favorite Nun once told me that the first sentence should suck you right into a book. I give it a few more (maybe a chapter) but if not.....NEXT! Why struggle through a bad one when so many fantastic ones are out there just waiting. Thank goodness they wrote it ALL down!

[beckyb1012]

Willa & Hesper, by Amy Feltman;

The New Me, by Halle Butler;

The Silient Patient, by Alex Michaelides.

[smoky22]

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@Travone wrote:

Two for me, and I'm sure others loved both of these:

Educated

Little Fires Everywhere

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@TravoneI agree about Educated.  Hated it.

[SWEET]

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@ahoymate wrote:

You can usually tell within a few pages if the book holds your interest or not. Why continue reading a "worst book?"

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I didn't finish these as stated in the first line.  Got to pages 50-100 which is my cut off point for books I don't like.

[Big Joanie]

Absolutely agree .. by page 25 I'm either in or out .....