24-Hour Read-a-Thon: Post 6

For Read-a-Thon information, see The Hidden Side of a Leaf. For my own Read-a-Thon posts, see the deblog's Read-a-Thon category archive.

Currently reading: Ian Sansom, The Case of the Missing Books

Pages read: 20 (since last post) | 157 (total for Read-a-Thon)
Time spent reading: 15 minutes (since last post) | 2:34 (total for Read-a-Thon)

Thoughts: In my last post on this book I said I was finding it tiresome. And I still am. But I'm torn. I laughed aloud at a scene in this last bit. Granted I'm 200 pages into it already, so one might have expected as much. Also, I don't know, I like the protagonist, and I want to like the book more. It does have great potential: book-centric, with a librarian as lead, an Englishman uprooted. It just somehow misses the mark for me. But I do think that some readers would have a much more favorable reaction to it.

I'm off to bed in minutes, though I'll be reading there for as long as I can. I should have time in the morning to post about the night's reading and perhaps to read a bit more before the Read-a-Thon closes its doors. Good night!

Comments

[dew]

1.

Goodnight! Stop by in the morning in case you win something!

[Eva]

2.

Have a good sleep! So, I'm guessing that overall, this book was disappointing?

[booklogged]

3.

Hope you got in some good reading before you dropped off to sleep. I'm offering a bit of cheering - if there's still time in the morning.

[Ginny]

4.

Sorry you aren't enjoying the book more. I have recently read a few like that. Hope you gets more read before dropping off to sleep. Great job!

[BookGal]

5.

I read that one during the summer. I don't think I'd want to read it sleepy. Good night and sweet dreams.

[Debra Hamel]

6.

Ah, the best laid plans. I fell asleep immediately last night, no reading at all. Well, there's still two hours left....

I don't want to condemn this book, as I think it will appeal more to some readers. It's not awful, but I think it tries too hard to be quirky. I'll write up a regular review for book-blog.com when I finish it. BookGal, if you're there: what did you think of it? (By the way, thanks for adding the KidderLit widget to your blog!)