01 July, 2013

Unfinished reading

I went through my books this past weekend, and found a few that I started reading, but for one reason or another did not finish:
  • The Hobbit, for instance. I've had a bookmark in that thing since 2005, and I only ever made it to the wine barrel scene. I never made it to Smaug!
  • Then there's the Da Vinci Code, which I'm about four pages in. I think I started it back the same year the movie came out -- when was that? Cripes, 2006! I must've started the book at the beginning of 2007, then.
  • Micah is a book by Laurell K. Hamilton that fits into her Anita Blake series -- I bought it, but I never read it because I didn't consider it part of the series (I thought it was only a stand alone). I found out a few years ago it is part of the series. Whoops.
  • The complete short stories of H. P. Lovecraft -- love those. I read them before bed because they're nice and short. I'd been reading those in the order they were written, and I left off at The Outsider. Next on that list will be The Music of Erich Zann. That puts me close to halfway through his list of short stories. After that, it'll be the novels.
  • I started Around the World in 80 Days two years ago while working for a utility company, but I only made it 6% through (according to my Kindle).
  • Then there's Black Beauty, which I'm halfway through.
I like reading the classic works, such as The Hobbit, Black Beauty, etc., because I think everyone should read those to be well-versed in the English language. Seriously, how much easier would Shakespeare and Chaucer (the two of whom high school students complain most about reading because "Oh, you can't understand them!") be to read if children read classics from the 1800-1900s in primary and middle schools leading up to Shakespeare and Chaucer in high school?

Ranting aside -- how about you folks? Any unfinished reading you've been itching to complete? Is there a reason you want to finish reading those stories, or did you abandon them because of how bad/boring/whatever they were?
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  1. Jessica01 July, 2013 22:19

    I'm bad for starting books, and putting them down for a year. I hate starting from the beginning, so I attempt resuming the read from where I left off. It never works. lol

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    1. Ash Litton01 July, 2013 22:46

      Yup. I think it may be contagious to writers ;)

      I'm thankful that I read a lot of the classics, because most of the time, I can find chapter synopses online, and catch up to where I left off, so I don't have to do hours of rereading. That's what I did for Watership Down, anyway.

      On a side note, I just soldiered through The Hobbit, so I can officially say I've completed that book now! Yay! *happy dance*

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Ash Litton

Ash Litton is a writer and lover of sci-fi, fantasy, and all things fictional. She is the author of Thoroughbred, Evening Hallow, Comeuppance, and Cabover Cabaret, and works on other Appalachian Dream Tales between her ongoing novel projects. She's also written No Diet, No Surgery, No Sweat, an ebook chronicling her weight-loss journey.

When she's not writing, she's drawing, and when she's not doing either of those, she's dreaming up new projects to work on. Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Ash has always wondered what things lay hidden in the hills around her. She attended West Virginia University, where she studied the English language before returning home to her family in rural West Virginia.