Grave Review Book

Book lover that I am, I fully expected to love How to Buy a Love of Reading. I think every reader has come across a person who has said "My time is very valuable and I don't waste it reading." To which us book lovers respond with "Well, you know, I read because I have a brain and it needs nourishment, which is why I'm leaving now since you're clearly not going to provide any." Snarky? Maybe. Do I care? Not really considering the douche offended me first by implying that his time is way more important than mine. So, anyway, I had high expectations for How to Buy a Love of Reading. Which sucks considering I really couldn't finish it.

My philosophy in reading has currently changed from "I need to read every book I feel I might be even remotely interested in from start to finish" to "Life's too short to read semi-sucky books." I'm not saying that How to Buy a Love of Reading was a sucky book, just that by the time I passed page 50, I noticed that I really disliked all the characters. This is the case with a big chunk of books I read, but I usually plow through at least to see if these unlikeable characters get run over by a truck. With How to Buy a Love of Reading, I really could care less what happened and to top it all off, I found what was happening boring. The minute my mind starts wandering with what I need to do precisely to get my room more clean, the book dies for me.

So, I could just not finish this book. It seemed like it had so much potential. I thought it was going to be an entertaining and quirky read. Instead what I got (from what I've read anyway) was the beginning of oodles and oodles of teenage angst. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Young-Adult novel lover, but again the beginning of said angst was also coma-inducing. Sigh. This is the second First Reads book that I just could. not. finish. Hopefully I have better luck with the next win.