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hobnail · 11-03-2020, 11:44 AM

I get more books every day than I can read. I subscribe to bookbub email for their weekly bargains and only download the free ones. I also subscribe to eReaderIQ's email for free books, although I also get an rss feed from them going to feedly which gets many more books. The third one is my local library.

For me the one thing that makes a book worth reading is when the characters have some depth, or what I call have a heart. The author makes me care about the character(s). The vast majority of authors treat the characters like they're merely chess pieces on the board to be moved around to make the plot work; the characters are flat and don't engage me. And I've realized that authors that do good character development do it right from the beginning, so it doesn't take long for me to tell if the book is worth finishing. I realized long ago that life is too short to force myself to finish books that I don't enjoy and as I said at the start, I get more books than I can read.

11-03-2020, 11:44 AM	#4
hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,590 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	I get more books every day than I can read. I subscribe to bookbub email for their weekly bargains and only download the free ones. I also subscribe to eReaderIQ's email for free books, although I also get an rss feed from them going to feedly which gets many more books. The third one is my local library. For me the one thing that makes a book worth reading is when the characters have some depth, or what I call have a heart. The author makes me care about the character(s). The vast majority of authors treat the characters like they're merely chess pieces on the board to be moved around to make the plot work; the characters are flat and don't engage me. And I've realized that authors that do good character development do it right from the beginning, so it doesn't take long for me to tell if the book is worth finishing. I realized long ago that life is too short to force myself to finish books that I don't enjoy and as I said at the start, I get more books than I can read.