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Put Down the Book
posted 04/30/2009
I admit that personally I'm not as good at following this rule as I could be. I tend to give myself up to 100 pages. And sometimes I'll go back to a book I put down after a few months just to make sure it wasn't just my mood that wasn't right. It never is. If I don't like a book once, I don't like it later either. Why is it so hard to stop reading a book even when you know you don't like it? Finishing a book we start is something that is ingrained in us from an early age. We're taught we have to finish a book it if we like it or not. It's not even up for debate once we start school. It's the reading equivalent of clean your plate, or eat your broccoli. Is it because I love broccoli now that there is still a part of me that somehow feels there must be something to that line of thinking? I know there are kids all over the world who don't have books, but I have come to learn sticking with a book that I don't like, isn't the way to change that. The truth is there are way too many good books out there to spend time on one you don't like. From a recent article I read, there are 150,000 books published annually in the United States. Our library alone brings in more books in one year than any one person could possibly read. So I say along with others when you find yourself reading a book you don't like: just put the book down and walk away.
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