Emma Kristensen

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme by The Broke And The Bookish, and will be a feature on Emma, the Bibliophile-Librarian. In Top Ten Tuesday I make lists of books, because I love books and I love lists. Here at the Bibliophile-Librarian, I cannot guarantee that it will always be posted on a Tuesday, but I will try.

In my Reader’s Advisory class yesterday, we discussed the concept of stopping to read a book. I discovered that I am very particular about what I read, especially now that I am in school and have less time for pleasure reading. I don’t force myself to finish books I don’t like (some people do), but I also don’t tend to DNF a book (because I am so careful about the choice in the first place). I know within three pages whether I will like a book, because I can tell by the writing, the characters, the setting, and the feel I get from the book.

Generally when I do DNF a book, it is not because it is so terrible I couldn’t finish it, it is because it wasn’t the right time, or I couldn’t get into it enough to finish it during the three-week loan period from the public library. The first five books on my list are not actually marked as DNF, they are marked as DNF For Now:

1. Night Owls by Lauren M. Roy: I own this book, and I have been meaning to get back to it. It appealed to me because it was an urban fantasy that takes place in a university town, with a main character who owns a bookstore.

2. Clean Sweep by Illona Andrews: I think I stopped reading this because it was an ebook, and I don’t read very many e-books. I enjoyed the parts I did read, and it has a killer cover.

3. The Shining by Stephen King: This one is embarrassing. I was really into this book for the first 75%, but something happened that made it so I just could not bring myself to get back into it. I had it checked out of the library for MONTHS. This happens to me on occasion, and I need to step away from the book for a couple of years before I can go back.

4. The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson: I started reading this because my sister-in-law enjoyed it. I wasn’t able to finish it before I had to return it to the library, so it is still waiting for me to go back to it!

5. No Proper Lady by Isabel Cooper: I saw this mentioned on another blog, and I thought it sounded cool: A time-travelling, sci-fi romance novel, taking place in Regency England. I read the first few pages, and the writing was kind of sloppy and didn’t grab me. I would be willing to give it another chance, though, because it’s such an interesting concept.

But, sometimes, it is because it was just too terrible…

6. The Shack by Wm. Paul Young: I read this book because my grandmother gave it to me. She thought it was pretty thought-provoking, and I liked the first part where there is a murder. Only it doesn’t get any better than that…

7. Hush, Hush: The Graphic Novel #1 by Becca Fitzpatrick

8. Reawakened by Colleen Houck