Special Post - When to Put a Book Aside

Ragsdale, Melissa.14 Signs to Take a Break from the Book You're Currently Reading. Bustle [web site] https://www.bustle.com/p/14-signs-to-take-a-break-from-the-book-youre-currently-reading-11933221. October 26, 2018.

First Sentences:

Maybe this is heresy for me to say, but putting down a book can actually be a good thing. 

In my opinion, it's totally OK to not finish books: Press pause, and come back to it another time — or don't come back to it at all! Either way, setting that book down for a while might be just what you need to feel reinvigorate your love of reading.

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Every once in awhile we need to remind ourselves that is perfectly fine to put down a book we are not enjoying. Time is too precious and there are too many other tempting books to waste even a single reading session struggling through a book that is a total slog. 

Melissa Ragsdale, writing for the Bustle web site, offers fourteen signs to help you decide whether or not to continue with a book. Read and grow, Grasshopper: 

• It feels like work to open it up

• There's another book you want to read so much more

• When people ask you about it, you only talk about the things you don't like

• You've been reading it for ages and haven't made very much progress

• You keep falling asleep while reading it

• You've stopped carrying it around with you

• You're only reading it because you want to tell other people you've read it

• You're putting pressure on yourself to finish it

• You're not curious about what's going to happen next

• You keep making excuses for not reading it

• You don't ever want to talk about it

• You feel like you've read a million other books like it

• Whenever you read it, you keep having to start over again because you're not taking anything in

• The thought of putting it down feels like a relief

I couldn't agree with her more.

Happy reading (and NOT reading, too) 

Fred

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