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Originally Posted by CRussel
So, abandon it. You aren't compelled to finish books you aren't enjoying. I know, that is hard sometimes. But it's a lesson ebooks have taught me. Finally!
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I was about to post that while I've become pretty good at this, I want to become better still, when I decided to back up the assertion with stats. And, ouch!
Last year, nearly a third of my reads were one or two stars and that's entirely unacceptable. Some of them I can justify, as in: a book club read; I was learning something; it tanked at the very end; it was a dud in an overall entertaining series; it was borderline three stars; it was mindless distraction during recuperation. However, the total is sobering.
I'm glad this made me look. I need to do much better. As I said above, I've already bagged one book; here's to more abandonment!
ETA: I went back to look, and I can see why I finished more than half the duds. That still leaves a lot of books for which there is no excuse.