Litsy

Tackle the TBR 🤓📚
I tried these to the halfway mark before deciding to DNF them. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Did you enjoy these?
Should I try again?
#boleybooks #tbrpile #DNF #BookBeast #bookbuds #bookchat #bookclub #letsread

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Nessavamusic

Annie Bot | Sierra Greer

bailed

This is not a bad book at all, it is just making me uncomfortable and is just not for me. #hailthebail #dnf

Tamra It was okay, a bit repetitive. The premise is interesting though. 1w

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Schnoebs

Dante | Sadie Kincaid

bailed

This was going no where fast. I read almost 200 pages and nothing has happened. This feels like a completely different author from the New York Ruthless series. The first few chapters of this were great and gave these characters life but after they started sleeping with each other everything completely vanished from their personalities.

#dnf #smut

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Schnoebs

Galapagos: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

bailed

Ugh, this is so frustrating. I love a good classic sci-fi story, especially when it‘s talking about catastrophic events happening on earth and to the environment. I just couldn‘t get on with the writing style I think. I can see where the author was taking us and what they were trying to say but I just couldn‘t connect with any of it. I‘ve been trudging through this book for so long and I just need to give up.

#dnf #classicscifi #scifi

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GingerAntics

Five Broken Blades | Mai Corland

bailed

Sorry, not sorry to 92% of littens. 26% in and I just don‘t care. I was listening to the audiobook as fast as I could (3x speed) and it still felt like it was just crawling along at a snails pace. The bells instead of hours just feels pointless. Just say hours already.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics All of a sudden, 14 chapters in, this character is suddenly saying “gods on high” before everything. This is in no way an adult book. This feels so YA it‘s practically cliche. I‘m sorry. I just can‘t anymore. Even more importantly, I just don‘t want to. #MaiCorland #FiveBrokenBlades #DNF #bail #hardpass #YA #snoozefest #dontcare #cantdoitanymore 1mo

julesG It's probably NA - YA but with some spice. 🙄🙄🙄 1mo

GingerAntics @julesG I feel like NA is just a subgenre of YA based on what I‘ve read. I also read this had no spice, but “gods on high” that other character that betrayed you is still so hot. 🙄 1mo

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Aconight Audiobook on 3x speed was the ONLY way I got through this. I feel your pain so much. Here‘s to better books in your future 🥂 1mo

GingerAntics @Aconight oh good! I felt like I was the only one! I was just sitting there thinking I would rather do a reread of something else than go another minute. So many books, so little time = no time for this nonsense. I commend you for powering through. 1mo

Aconight @GingerAntics nope your opinions are extremely valid I assure you. I neverrrr put any audio on 3x. Unfortunately, I suffer from fear of DNFing. 😅 1mo

GingerAntics @Aconight 2x is normal for me. I think it‘s a benefit of my ADHD brain taking things in super fast… but 3x usually it my upper limit and not comfortable. Somehow, this was still comfortable, but uncomfortable in how slow it felt. I just wanted the author to get on with it already. 1mo

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Andarna

Son of a Witch INTL | Gregory Maguire

pan

Just can‘t get into this like I did Wicked. Something is just not hitting the same. Has anyone felt the same? Read the others? Maybe I skip this one and go to the next?
##wicked #sonofawitch #dnf

BookBr

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules | Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

bailed

This just didn‘t fulfill its potential, in my opinion, and I feel like 40% through is a fair shake. The characters felt really surface-level, and the situations were more silly than entertaining. The book felt more like a series of loosely connected short stories that weren‘t that great — this may be a translation issue, or maybe this one just isn‘t for me. There are just a lot of books I‘d rather be reading.

#dnf #hailthebail

Gleefulreader Love the hashtag! 2mo

BookBr @Gleefulreader It makes me laugh😊 2mo

Bette Someone once told me to subtract my age from 100, take the remainder, if I‘ve read that many pages and hate it, then quit. The older I get, the better that works! 😊🤭👍 2mo

BookBr @Bette I love that! 😂 I think I shall adopt it… 2mo

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GingerAntics

The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase | Mark Forsyth

bailed

4 chapters in and I couldn‘t do this anymore. This is just a giant string of quotes followed by rubbish. Shakespeare wasn‘t a genius because he learned to write and got better at it as he did it, and because one hit wonders are geniuses? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics Neil Armstrongs famous quote “makes no sense” because of static or because he botched it? God uses English rhetoric... in a document originally written in Hebrew and Greek? This guy is self important and boring. He doesn‘t have an original thought in this thing. He just says things he believes make him sound intelligent. I just can‘t. 2mo

GingerAntics I have multiple books in Apple Books by this author, but I don‘t think I‘m reading any of them. I didn‘t even have time to post here that I‘d started the book. Poets don‘t have great thoughts and no one cares what they think anyway was probably my last straw. #MarkForsyth #TheElementsOfEloquence #Eloquence #NothingEloquentHere #DNF (edited) 2mo

GingerAntics This is officially my first DNF of 2025! 🎉🍾🎊🍻🥳 2mo

quietlycuriouskate I don't know the parameters of "the team" in this case but it surely sounds like you took one for it! 2mo

GingerAntics @quietlycuriouskate thank you! May my experience prevent the rest of this team from having to experience whatever this thing was. 2mo

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