Task #6: Finish a book you’ve DNFed (did not finish).

[Stina]

If I truly DNF a book, it is nearly always for Reasons, and it would take a lot to get me to pick it up again. That's why I have a "setting aside for now" shelf on Goodreads. Sometimes the book has to go back to the library. Sometimes it's not the right time for that book. Sometimes I just get distracted by another book. So I have many books to choose from. The first one I managed to finish for this prompt was New York 2140. My husband and I started listening to it on a road trip several years ago, and it turned out to be longer than the trip!

[Briana]

I just finished the book I DNF'ed, and slogging through it assured me I made the right decision the first time around.

[Joanna]

I had previously DNF'd The Ogress and the Orphans, but I had to read it for a group I'm part of, so I put in the effort to actually read it this time. (Listening to the audiobook helped, a little.) If I hadn't had to finish it, though, I definitely would have put it down again. Having finished it, it strikes me as a book best suited to be read to children as a bedtime story over many nights, considering how simple the messages are and how many, many times they are repeated, but that's not how the book is marketed at all.

[Sherri]

I do not like this prompt because if I don't finish a book I don't want to try it again. I read Walden. Really I listened to it because I knew if I tried to read it I would put the book down. I hated it.

[Michelle]

I tried to finish Wuthering Heights, a DNF book that I was excited to get back to… alas, it just isn’t for me. It will stay DNF forever.

[Ron]

Midnight Sun

I've tried reading this book 2 times, but I can never finish it because it's 832 pages long. I'm determined to this time around.

This time I'll be starting from the beginning because I don't remember much and because I'm annotating.

[Elizabeth]

A few years ago, I had started reading A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield, and although it was interesting I was struggling to finish it because of mood/library due date time constrictions. Grabbed it again for this task, and it was quite good. A bit textbooky at times, but a really great introductory overview of the subject (it really explains all the contributing factors that led to the riot, as well as the events of the riot itself). Glad I revisited it!

[Russell]

I FINALLY made it through A Discovery of Witches
I have started this book several times before and never made it through but I stuck it out. It was definitely a hate read. I had gone into it thinking it was a strong feminist witchy read and I just kept getting more disappointed the further I read. The marketing of the book made it into something it was not and I was left with the feeling of reading a more nerdy version of Twilight