Mishap C: Detour! - A Book You've Been Avoiding

[Lindsey]

3) Choose your road trip MISHAP C: DETOUR!

Detour! Pick a book that you’ve been avoiding. This could be for any reason; because you don't want it to end, you don't like how the previous book ended, you didn't have a good experience with this author last time, it's up to you!



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[Lindsey]

I read Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney, 2 Stars

[Cindy]

I’m pretty sure I will read Lolita by Nabokov. I read classics on a regular basis, but this one is just so…uncomfortable. I almost read it every year. Ha!

[Shonna]

I finally finished The Invited by Jennifer McMahon. I started it way back in January 2020 and got stuck and just found my way back.
https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2023...

[Leonore]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Michele]

I haven't exactly been avoiding The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis, but I did make a decision a few years back to take a break from the author, and I've just started reading her books again.

[Denise]

I read Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I wasn't avoiding this particular book per se....i was avoiding the high fantasy prompt for the "regular' challenge. this ended up being the book I chose and read for that prompt

[Carol]

I read Leave The World Behind which is a BOTM from October 2020. I had read some bad reviews so I kept putting off reading it. I found it very suspenseful and rated it 4 stars.

[Mary Sue]

I read The Serial Killer's Wife by Robert Swartwood. This was a free book I had downloaded. I knew nothing about it but when I looked at it the cover seemed kind of creepy, so I had been avoiding reading it.

[Aquaria]

Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

I was right to avoid it. What a dreadfully boring book. I don't get the praise for it, because Melville does everything wrong with it as a writer, namely far too much exposition. Much of the book could have been woven into Ishmael learning all the factoids crammed into the book as he was learning how to work on a whaling boat.

But nope, Melville had to drain our brains by lecturing us on interminable mindless details, and worse, be all wrong about much of it on top of that.