I started reading for fun a few years ago and started with the top 100 classics as voted by the readers of penguin books.
While I’ve loved some of them, and enjoyed others even if they weren’t my cup of tea, there have been some that I’ve had to grind them down page by page until they are finish.
I want to finish all 100 as it’s the challenge I set myself, so what do you do get through a book that you aren’t enjoying/connecting with?
Sorry if this had already been asked, I only joined yesterday!
I almost never DNF (and usually if I do, I pick it back up a year later and finish it) but I certainly don’t think it’s bad to do so–I just have a hard time giving up on a book myself but it does mean I’ve wasted some time. Part of why I don’t DNF is because I don’t usually pick up books totally blind, not that I know everything about the plot but I look up reviews/type/moods on Storygraph and Goodreads to see if it will match my tastes, and because I’m always worried that the second half/ending will redeem it (which has happened, but rarely). But I also don’t read just one book at a time, so if I’m not into it, I’ll put it down for a couple of days or weeks while I read something more fast or enjoyable to stop me from ending up in a reading slump because I’m not super into a book.