Hi all my Bookworms!
How are you all?
My name is Chiara and I am a Bookworm.
The second week of May already? Can you believe it? So far May is turning out to be a really good month. I hope that you are enjoying the content that I am writing. I am, like always enjoying writing it.
It is Tuesday again, if you haven’t noticed already, and that means one thing. Top Ten Tuesday. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme originally created by The Broke and The Bookish in 2010 and switched to That Artsy Reader Girl in 2018. Each week we are given a different topic. This week the topic is ‘the last ten books I abandoned’.
I rather think this is a difficult topic and I want to say that I have a full ten on this list but I honestly don’t. I think the books I haven’t finished I just don’t remember.
I hope you don’t judge me too harshly on the book I put below and I honestly want to go back and finish them … eventually.
- House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
Goodreads - Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Goodreads - Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
Goodreads - Wildwood Academy (Wunderkids #1) by Jacqueline Silvester
Goodreads - Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
Goodreads - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Goodreads
What books have you recently abandoned? Go on I really want to know. No shame here.
Leave you thought and link to your blog in the comments down below.
Stay home. Stay safe.
And until next time, happy reading.
Bookworms Anonymous 
Great post! I would recommend starting Eragon again, but from what I remember it’s a big book!
I wrote about books I wanted to abandon as I don’t often DNF books.
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I’ll check it out.
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Great list! I DNF’d Eragon, too, when I tried reading it – it just felt like nothing was happening. I hope you enjoy it more if you return to it!
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I’ve tried reading it so many times as a kid and I got further into it this time than I had previously and I hoped I would finish it, but maybe it just isn’t to be
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I couldn’t finish Eragon either. You’re not alone!
My TTT .
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I actually haven’t abandoned any books this year!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/top-ten-tuesday-263/
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One of the last books I DNF’ed was a French novel called ‘Strike Your Heart.’ It had potential but also had the subtlety of a sledgehammer. I’m all for being comfortable with not finishing books you don’t like, life’s too short to waste your time on stuff you’re not enjoying. 🙂
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Exactly how I feel!
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I haven’t finished a single Sarah J Maas book so I’ve pretty much given up on her books altogether haha 😅
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I always find the first books in her series so slow going but once you get past the first one it gets better and better.
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No judgement at all! I’m glad you ditched them if they weren’t for you.
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Wow–you chucked an Agatha? Amazing. I admire that, even though I liked that one.
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With all of these books, it wasn’t that I didn’t like them. In fact I loved what I’d read of the Agatha Christie, but life and other things got in the way. They were literally abandoned, not DNFed
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Ok! I hope you get to finish it. I recommend the older movie version, too, from the 1970s with Lauren Bacall and Sean Connery and many others. Excellent.
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I’m afraid to read House of Earth and Blood. I liked acotar but I’m not sure about this one.Though I’m curious how she tackles adult fantasy
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From the little I read with a lot of swearing!
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I TOTALLY understand why you have House of Blood & Earth on there. The first 150 pages are total info dumps but I promise that it gets so much better after that. Unless you got past that and just don’t like it… that’s okay too!
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No, I didn’t get past that. I’ll get back to it when my mood is better
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It is in a way very refreshing to see Christie on that list. Nothing against Agatha, many of her books are masterpieces, but I tend to get tired when people behave as though she alone was GAD. I was shocked to read that book by Dexter too. Had heard such good things about it but the sexist protagonist didn’t appeal to me at all. I did finish it, however. 😀
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I finished the first and second book in the Eragon series, but then I lost interest and I just couldn’t be bothered to read the rest of the series.
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Same with Eragon! I tried it when it was new and everyone was raving about it, but it wasn’t my jam at all. And full of stereotypes. I don’t mind a couple. I like certain tropes. But this…. it felt like it had ALL OF THEM 😀
I also couldn’t warm up to Sarah J. Maas. Just not for me.
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[…] talked about books I’ve abandoned last week in my Top Ten Tuesday post and generally if I’m not enjoying a book, I leave it. But because this was for a blogtour I […]
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I for sure don’t believe that May has gone by so fast already lol. Sorry to hear House of Earth and Blood didn’t work for you. I’m hoping to read that soon, so we’ll see if I fare any better with it.
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I wanted to like, in fact I did like what I read but I think it was a case of wrong book wrong time
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