Comments on The Book Vixen: Thursday Thirteen: Reasons I DNF a Book

My TBR pile is too big for me to read through a bo...

2013-08-13T06:50:57.967-07:00

My TBR pile is too big for me to read through a book I am not enjoying. I used to not like DNFing a book but now I'm okay with it.

OMG yes on #1! Non-stop scenery descriptions!

2013-08-13T06:49:54.486-07:00

OMG yes on #1! Non-stop scenery descriptions!

When a child (or children) steal the spotlight fro...

2013-08-13T06:47:45.987-07:00

When a child (or children) steal the spotlight from the hero and heroine and is (are) used to drive the plot forward.

Hate when a book is boring-that's my big DNF r...

2013-08-11T22:05:02.370-07:00

Hate when a book is boring-that's my big DNF reason!

My #1 reason is a combo between Brianna's #4 &...

2013-08-10T10:35:42.492-07:00

My #1 reason is a combo between Brianna's #4 & # 5. I'm getting better about DNF books. I use to feel like I HAD to finish a book if I started it. No anymore. Too many other books to read if I'm not loving it.

I need to be better about DNF, I've persevered...

2013-08-09T23:06:14.549-07:00

I need to be better about DNF, I've persevered through some boring books lately. Instead of DNF I finish the book then go to Goodreads and put lots of reminders to myself in the Private Notes section to never buy that author again!

When I think about the ones I have abandoned on my Kindle it tends to be because
1)Oh my word, please let something happen, nothing is happening, these people are just talking and talking and talking and the author won't stop describing the scenery.
2)In BDSM books when the author is going on using boring dialogue to make sure they get all the cautions and warnings in. Stilted dialogue in general really puts me off.
3)Repeats of scenes within the story. I felt like every time I started a new chapter in the Jaci Burton book Thrown By A Curve, I was reading the same scene over and over. So much damn physical therapy.

To be honest, most of the stuff on the lists in the post won't stop me from reading a book. Sheer boredom is the most often reason I DNF.

Is this Kane's story by Showalter? I've he...

2013-08-09T16:46:26.970-07:00

Is this Kane's story by Showalter? I've heard it's not a great read...if you read this LMK what you thought of book!

I just ran across the first 4 in Brianna's lis...

2013-08-09T14:42:13.187-07:00

I just ran across the first 4 in Brianna's list in Darkest Craving, but I still finished it *pats myself on the back* but never again that was pure agony!

My biggest reason is just moving so slow that I ac...

2013-08-08T21:47:28.387-07:00

My biggest reason is just moving so slow that I actually dread the thought of picking the book back up. If I am thinking of all these other things that I need to do besides read, then the book gets tossed aside.

Child plot moppet? It takes a lot to keep me inte...

2013-08-08T19:20:03.971-07:00

Child plot moppet? It takes a lot to keep me interested because there are so many other things to do.

Great lists. I hate when I lose interest so I don&...

2013-08-08T18:03:50.390-07:00

Great lists. I hate when I lose interest so I don't care what happens. If I don't want to pick up the story all the time, I likely will just stop picking it up at all.

Yes to all the above :) Those are some of my reaso...

2013-08-08T12:49:13.721-07:00

Yes to all the above :) Those are some of my reasons too.