In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!
Each week, participating blogs are asked questions to post and answer on their websites.
This week’s question – “What keeps you reading beyond the first few pages of a book, and what makes you want to stop reading a book and put it back on the shelf?“
This seems as thoough it should be an easy question to answer, but after some thought, it's not easy at all. Basically for me, (Curlypow) I need to make a connection with the book. That connection doesn't neccessarily have to be with the characters tho'. It could be with the writing style, the setting, the POV, the humour, the angst - I could go on and on. If the connection hasn't been made by around pages 50 -75, I rarely carry on reading. If I have been given a recommendation by someone whose choices I normally enjoy, I may persevere a little longer, but there are so many excellent books available now, that it seems foolish to continue reading something I'm not enjoying. How about you?
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Love your blog title..have a great week - Happy Fourth of July -and love your answer too.
ReplyDeleteHopping through. I'll go an especially long time if a person has recommended a book to me. But I agree that I eventually need to connect with the book.
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