The Breakup!
It's happened to me, it's happened to you, it's happened to all of us. You know what I'm talking about - that moment when you realize it just isn't working.
You're in an airport, a grocery store, a book store, or you're ideally going through your Kindle when IT happens. Your heart beats a little faster; your lips curl into a smile that says, oh yeah! You act causal, you don't want to appear eager, and yet, you long to possess it! Hold it! Call it your own!
The cover with its title in raised silver lettering causes you to lick your lips in anticipation. Then, there, just below the titillating title is the name of the genius that wrote the enticer. You gasp, ohmygod, it's him/her. Surly it's a sign that you and this book were meant to be together.
Settled into your favorite chair with a cup of hot chocolate/red wine/tea/ coffee/ bourbon/beer/juice/pop/Gatorade, or a margarita, you are now alone with it, the book you have given your heart to.
You sip your drink - pick one of the above - and turn the cover. Chapter One. You are about to lose yourself. You are about to escape into another world, another time and place. You are about to meet the hero and heroine that you will fall in love with, cry with and suffer with. Things will happen to them that you never dreamt possible. You will be taken to worlds that only the billiant mind of the author who wrote this treasure is capable of conjuring up.
You read the first paragraph.
It doesn't jump out and grab you but that's okay, a little foreplay is always good. By the bottom of page your ardour has cooled somewhat. By the end of the chapter you're wondering what you ever saw in the cover anyway!
By Chapter Five you've finished your hot chocolate/drank the bottle of wine/had more beer than you meant to and the damned book still hasn't grabbed you. Face it! You picked a loser!
I've picked a few losers. Sometimes the book has started out with a bang and I've thought, this is great. A couple of chapters in though the great start has fizzled to a whimper and I've lost all interest. I usually put a book like that down and don't pick it up again. It's not worth it.
No author deliberately writes a loser. And sometimes what you think is a loser is actually a very good book. It's all a matter of chemistry - yours and the book's. In the end it's best to admit that you weren't compatible. Some love affairs were never meant to be. You move on. Another town. Another airport. Another cover. You gaze longingly...maybe this time!
You're in an airport, a grocery store, a book store, or you're ideally going through your Kindle when IT happens. Your heart beats a little faster; your lips curl into a smile that says, oh yeah! You act causal, you don't want to appear eager, and yet, you long to possess it! Hold it! Call it your own!
The cover with its title in raised silver lettering causes you to lick your lips in anticipation. Then, there, just below the titillating title is the name of the genius that wrote the enticer. You gasp, ohmygod, it's him/her. Surly it's a sign that you and this book were meant to be together.
Settled into your favorite chair with a cup of hot chocolate/red wine/tea/ coffee/ bourbon/beer/juice/pop/Gatorade, or a margarita, you are now alone with it, the book you have given your heart to.
You sip your drink - pick one of the above - and turn the cover. Chapter One. You are about to lose yourself. You are about to escape into another world, another time and place. You are about to meet the hero and heroine that you will fall in love with, cry with and suffer with. Things will happen to them that you never dreamt possible. You will be taken to worlds that only the billiant mind of the author who wrote this treasure is capable of conjuring up.
You read the first paragraph.
It doesn't jump out and grab you but that's okay, a little foreplay is always good. By the bottom of page your ardour has cooled somewhat. By the end of the chapter you're wondering what you ever saw in the cover anyway!
By Chapter Five you've finished your hot chocolate/drank the bottle of wine/had more beer than you meant to and the damned book still hasn't grabbed you. Face it! You picked a loser!
I've picked a few losers. Sometimes the book has started out with a bang and I've thought, this is great. A couple of chapters in though the great start has fizzled to a whimper and I've lost all interest. I usually put a book like that down and don't pick it up again. It's not worth it.
No author deliberately writes a loser. And sometimes what you think is a loser is actually a very good book. It's all a matter of chemistry - yours and the book's. In the end it's best to admit that you weren't compatible. Some love affairs were never meant to be. You move on. Another town. Another airport. Another cover. You gaze longingly...maybe this time!
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