Monday, October 27, 2008

So Many Books, So Little Time

Happy Monday! Whew! My weekend goal was to clean off my library book shelf at home and bring some of them back. I used to read the whole book -- then I decided life is too short so I would read 50 pages and if it hadn't grabbed me by then I'd give up on it. Now, life is getting shorter, so I only give the book 25-30 pages. So out of the 8 young adult and childen's books I was looking at this weekend only a few grabbed me-- I definetly have to finish Savvy.

I was also rereading Water for Elephants for bookclub tomorrow night. Once again, I love that book! I'm anxious to start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo --it intrigues me because of the hype surrounding it, but also because the author is Swedish and I have a strong Swedish heritage.

So that's my reading weekend.....not as illustrious as I had hoped. Better luck next time.

1 comment:

Allana said...

I really like your idea of only reading the first 25-30 pages of a book and then deciding if you want to continue. Until recently I usually tried to finish a book after I started it but there have been a couple recently I just couldn’t get into. I like the idea of setting a page limit or goal. That way you give the book a fair shot instead of giving up on it after only a few pages.