Did not finish

Well hello there! I am back to Sunday blogging, my favourite day to ramble.
And today I must confess... I put a book down this morning. That sounds awfully like I took it to the vet to end it's life, no I don't mean that! It's not in the big book heaven in the sky.

I did not finish a book. Now I used to be pretty much allergic to doing this, if I was reading a book I wasn't really enjoying I stubbornly carried on, yawning and hating my way through it until I got to the end. I think I was blinded by telling myself that I simply had to know what happened in the end of the book.

But you know what? I don't think I'm going to be lead awake at night berating myself for not finding out what Juliet did next.

I have been reading Pure Juliet by Stella Gibbons. This novel is written about as the last manuscript, found after Gibbons (author of the classic Cold Comfort Farm) died. I was totally attracted by the cover, the blurb wasn't very descriptive and I read the first page and thought 'OK let's do this.' But the characters are vapid and unlikeable, the plot isn't engaging enough and I'm 60 pages in. Juliet is an incredibly clever 16 year old who has run away from home to live with an eccentric old lady in the middle of the countryside who has servants and a dashing nephew. Juliet is surly and confusing to read about, and frankly life is too short for that. Currently Juliet isn't really doing anything except reading and sulking. The blurb only tells me that Juliet is trying to figure out if she's a genius. She may be a genius, but she is also quite difficult to read about.

So this will be on my did not finish pile. There aren't many books to accompany it: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (I know! I'm sorry I will go back to it one day), Rebecca by Du Maurier, H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald and the Invisible Ring from the Black Jewels series. But life really is too short for bad books. I have so many to read! My extra bookshelf is still full of books I haven't read yet.

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Have a great rest of the weekend.