Calabrisella Mia

Have you ever picked up a book, started to read it, and then found yourself battling to get to the end? To say I love to read is an understatement. I have a pile of books I want to read that seems to grow every time I walk into a bookstore. There are some pretty great books out there. But, there are also a fair share of not so great ones. I never know what I’m going to encounter when I crack open a book but I always read a book to the end.

I really thought I had met my match with my latest read. Someone gave me a copy of “Love In The Time Of Cholera”.It was one of Oprah’s Book Club picks so it couldn’t be that bad right? I struggled through this book counting down the pages to the end hoping the words would magically disappear off the page so I wouldn’t have to read anymore. It is sad to say but I didn’t feel completely and totally engaged in the story at all. It’s surprising because the novelist and the book have received such incredible reviews. There wasn’t much dialogue and the characters I envisioned in my head had no voice. That took away a lot of their personality. The almost 400-page book was just full of overly descriptive words of irrelevant things. The word clutter just made things boring and difficult to follow.

With strong determination, I tackled the beast and came out the victor. I finished the book and can now move on to my next read. Yay!

What was the last good book you read? What was the last bad book you read?

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