I have no qualms about closing a book unfinished. I’ve done it with a recent Grisham (a revolting amount of repetitive violence), one of Jojo Moyes’s books (child molestation), umpteen freebies I get emailed (they all started with the word ‘I’) and now Lucy Foley’s The Guest List (unbelievably flat characters, predictable plot, self-harm and I was never really hooked by any part of the story. And almost ever chapter started with ‘I’, in a surprising lack of writing skills.) How did this book make it anyone’s book club list?.
Life’s too short to read unrewarding fiction. So I opened a new book and (this isn’t surprising) I think I’ve read it before. Jonathan Evison’s The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. I’m going to keep reading, because I like his writing quite a bit and I enjoy re-reading a very well written book. It seems that I pick up different nuances with each read.
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