Guest Post: Why I Keep The Books I Disliked by Olivia J. The Wordshaker

Happy Monday Soul Questers!

Today, we have a very special guest with us: Olivia Bennett, AKA Olivia J. The Wordshaker, author A Cactus In The Valley! She’s going to be talking about why she keeps the books she doesn’t like.

Let’s Just roll right on into the post!

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If you’ve never had a book that absolutely filled you with seething rage . . . . then you’re probably not a reader. And that’s fine.

However, this post is for readers. And even readers might be confused about this post.

But yes, I do keep books that I didn’t like. Even ones that I hated. Sometimes, I don’t keep them on my shelf necessarily so they don’t take up space, but I still have them in my inventory.

For the most part, I keep these books because I bought them or got them as gifts. I keep them because they look nice on my shelf, and sometimes I photograph with them.

However, I really keep these books as reminders. Sometimes, I go back and reference them when I’m writing to see what worked and what didn’t. I keep them as memorabilia of the horrific reading experience, reminders of what not to do.

Weird? Probably. Effective? Definitely.

However, there’s more to the story if you’re still clutching the books you despise and are ready to throw them into a fiery abyss. I also keep books I hated because it means I’m willing to give them a second chance. I’m not one to read a book, hate it, and then toss it aside. In fact, I’ve read some books that I didn’t much like, reread them, and through the reread they grew on me. (The opposite has also happened, but I digress.)

Unless you liked absolutely nothing about a book or you just cannot pull yourself through it without feeling homicidal, I think it deserves a second chance. And you never know when you might need to pull it out to talk to your friends and rip it apart.

~The WordShaker

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Olivia J, The WordShaker is the award-winning author of A Cactus In the Valley. She blogs at oliviajthewordshaker.blogspot.com and bookstagrams at @olivia.j.the.wordshaker

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