As I mentioned in my review of A Stolen Season, I went from reading because I was convinced I was missing the Magic Thing that had created positive reviews for this book, to reading because I just had to find out how the plot was resolved.
As I said on Twitter, there's almost an annoyed affection I feel for a book that I really dislike but am compelled to finish. I just had to know how the ending was going to happen, even if I didn't enjoy the book or the characters - and that's something which has happened to me before.
I figured there had to be a term for that. So I asked on Twitter and Facebook - and wouldn't you know, people had ideas, but not one definitive term. There are, however, really, really good suggestions.
I Storified the Twitter conversation here:
And also on Facebook, there were other excellent suggestions, like "Apathetic imperative" from Catherine Wade, or "FTF-forced to finish" from Vanessa Lillie." Redheadedgirl calls it being a "Sin Eater."
So which is your favorite? Hate-read? Masobookism? Obligaread? Apathetic Imperative? Brussels Sprouts Reading?
What do you call it? And does it happen to you? Because it happens to me ALL the TIME.
I am gonna call it ABS. Anita Blake Syndrome. It is the only thing that got me to read the last 4 or 5 books in the series, and I thinking I may need to go to rehab to convince myself that I absolutely do not need to read the next one.
I like FTF - forced to finish, because that’s how it feels. It happens to me more with action / suspense books than romance - if I can’t figure out how the plot is going to end I’ll plug on, grumbling, but feeling like I *have* to finish it. And sometimes I do feel that odd affection - I still feel that towards The Firm and I read it some 20 years ago. By the time I realized that I *hated* everyone in the book and didn’t care about them at all, I was invested enough in the plot to have to finish it,. And you know, I remember that reading experience more vividly than reading books that I didn’t hate.
Someone mentioned completism - to me, that describes having to read everything by an author or everything in a series - I suffer from completism when it comes to JAK - I’ve been reading her since early 90s on and I feel compelled to read her new releases, even though I’m mighty, mighty tired of the Arcane Society. And I’m starting to feel that with Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changling series. I haven’t loved every book but I’m committed to completing the damn series (if it ever ends)
Shit Shingles I have a box full of books I regret buying and refuse to display for the curious or donate to torture any other souls. I was recently asked, “What’s in the box?” “Shit shingles. Handle with care.”
I’d call it Optimism: either the ending will redeem the book, or the book will be so bad that at least I will be able to enjoy mocking it.
I’m most often hopeful about redemption when reading books with shitty, unlikable characters. Perhaps they will be humanized in a realistic, honest way and grow and change and in the end, I will find that I like them and find their changes believable.
ECS-Ending Compulsion Syndrome. A severe form of OCD, when you just can’t put a book down until you try to justify why you’ve kept reading a lousy book with a crappy plot and substandard characters. Then you go and drink three glasses wine, three times to delete the knowledge that you just read a SHITTY BOOK TO THE VERY END.
This happens with saddening regularity- usually why I refer to myself as a “furious hampster of book-reading rage” to my friends (my folks have learned to stop asking what I’m reading). Though it might be a wise idea to keep a few terms on hand. Some people might completely appreciate an in depth discussion of masobookism, while more delicate company may pearl clutch & spontaneously combust.
Tamara Hogan said on 11.21.12 at 01:42 PM • [link]
I’m more of the Parker/wallbanger school - life’s too short, and reading time’s too precious, to finish a book I don’t like. Into the donation bag it goes.
I saved this comment from Nili from May 18, 2012 which pretty much sums it up for me too. “…when I say I am a compulsive reader, I mean that in the “some people take medication for this” sort of way.” (Nili)
FlyingFreeways said on 11.21.12 at 02:20 PM • [link]
I like masobookism as a term. I turn the experience of reading a crappy book into a WTF finding expedition—I enjoy figuring out exactly why I find the book so awful.
I’ve finally come to regard these books as bad boyfriends. You just keep reading because you started reading it. I am now a pro at breaking up with bad books. It is so freeeeeeing! And then I go traipsing into my next read with starry-eyed optimism. I broke up with Come a Little Closer last night. And I grabbed a tub of ice cream to soothe my resentment over the money and time wasted, and my comfort read What Happens in London and settled in for the evening.
For me, putting a book aside is almost too easy and I refuse to waste time on a book I’m not enjoying. Which leaves me with not only bad unfinished books but also good books that are left in limbo because something distracted me at a slow bit or I was in the mood for something else.
My vote is DEFINITELY for “Masobookism.” That’s it. Like, totally. Fur-shure.
Jenny Dolton said on 11.21.12 at 04:13 PM • [link]
I call it “Reading For School”—otherwise there is no way I’m finishing a book I hate. I’ll skip to the end to see if maybe the annoying heroine fell off a cliff or was pecked to death by pidgeons, but I won’t bother with the rest of the book.
When I hate a book or catch myself wishing I was closer to the end so I could just figure out how everything ended and move on (usually because I’m just not that invested in the characters), I just read the last chapter or two and move on with my life.
That being said, I think “Cockholm Syndrome” is a hilarious term, but better used for heroines who stay with an alphole for no apparent reason, aside from his Mighty Wang.
I read the entire Twilight series wondering when it was going to get good. If that isn’t hate-reading, I don’t know what is. On the bright side, when I talk smack about those books, I can do it from a place of knowledge.
I like the term “hate reading.” I only do it for books where the author has failed to get me emotionally involved (usually this happens because I dislike the characters), but the plot or premise has successfully hooked me, and I really want to find out what happens. And it’s not enough to just flip to the ending because I want to see how the book gets there. So I’m reading because of curiosity, but with a lack of enjoyment.
I do this less and less as time goes on. *Sometimes* I will skip forward to see how it ends… The number of pages I give a book before I move on is brutal! (Very few these days.)
I like brussel sprouts, so I like “Hate-Read,” “Masobookism,” and “ECS-Ending Compulsion Syndrome.” I was currently reading a book like that and I just kept reading it hoping it would get better because there was always a glimmer of “it might get better.” With 40 pages or so left, I gave up. I literally made a gutteral roar and threw the book down. Then I donated it to my library’s book sale.
electricbluecity said on 11.21.12 at 08:47 PM • [link]
Masobookism. You love to read but the damn book just hurts so much with every word.
Fallen Series by Lauren Kate. I actually grunted when I finished the last book.
I’ve read a lot of books that I couldn’t stand (here’s looking at you Twilight, Janelle Taylor’s first three ecstasy books, others,) and I’m the same way. I don’t give up easily, and this also comes towards books. It would take a lot of will power for me to say “forget about it,” and just put it down. What of the term “literary masochism” or something like “book whore?” even though its wrong and time consuming you still end up doing it…hope message is okay.
I like “train or car wreck syndrome.” You know it’s bad, but you feel compelled to slow down and have a good look at the disaster.
I’m getting better at, intentionally, not finishing books. Now I just need to get better at avoiding “oooo shiny! syndrome” and “library book overload” and I can cut back on the unintentionally not finished ones.
For a while, I was that way with Katherine Stone. I loved her first couple books then they started to be similar and all her characters had jewel colored eyes. I finally just gave up though I am still sometimes tempted. I am now at book 5 in Virgin River and starting to feel a little that way, compelled to continue though not as enamored as I once was. Once there were guys like that, too, beautiful and sexy and exciting initially but just not quite right for the long term….it’s not you, it’s me. We have to stop seeing each other.
Hmm, I don’t do this as much anymore- I skip to the end and then continue or reject based on that. M y husband on the other hand will tell me how bad the book is, and one occassion he was depressed by the storyline, and will then refuse to stop reading. the book that depressed him ( he was moping around for over a day) was some American super romance from harlequin. He gets much more upset than i do about bad storylines. So, I will go with sadobookism. The good thing about bad books, it makes appreciate good writers all the more.
I used to call the process of finishing a book I disliked “homework.” I didn’t always do it either. I now use the modified Nancy Pearl rule. If you don’t like it after 50 pages, move on, unless you’re over 50, in which case you deduct a page for each year past 50. I only feel obligated to read *mumble* pages these days, and thanks to book blogs and ebooks, I never have to wait for a better book. Bad prose is more likely to turn me off than bad characters, but I also hate it when a series that I’ve been reading becomes so static and repetitive that I can’t distinguish between books. Stephanie Plum #17 was the end of Evanovich for me, but that series was all “obligareads” since maybe #6. Stephanie Laurens, too. Same structure, same heros, same sex scenes, same words, same fucking ruched nipples….
I’m a completist. If I’ve invested time in starting something, I need to finish it no matter how bad it is. This is especially true if it’s something that everyone is talking about and I want to find out what all the fuss is about (50 Shades of Ruining My Weekend, I’m looking at you). It’s very very rare that I refuse to finish a book. Occasionally I’ll put aside a series if it’s forgettable enough (Anita Blake). But yes, sadly, I’m a completist. And apparently a masochist in some cases (thank you Twilight, may I have another?).
I kind of like Hate-Read. I find this happens on my Kindle versus an actual book, because I can’t throw the Kindle across the room as I used to. Since I’ve starting reading your site, I’ve found a lot more great books and am not “grabbing” anything that seems remotely good which makes me want to throw them across the room when they turn out to be shit. But the book Laura Kinsale mentions in your twitter convo, Wow…how lazy was that writer?
ThingsAlySays said on 11.23.12 at 01:12 PM • [link]
For me it means “Unwilling to admit I wasted my money”.
But thankfully for the last few years I’ve been willing to stop reading a book when I wasn’t liking it. I just don’t have enough free time to waste on things I don’t like.
Nowadays I borrow books first and then if I liked them I buy them. Books are WAY too expensive over here! So if I bought a book and it ended up being CRAP then I’d feel extremely angry and I’d probably try to read it until the end, hoping against hope that it got better.
librarygrrl64 said on 11.23.12 at 05:34 PM • [link]
I really laughed at the term “danbrownesia,” for some reason. :-D
Life is too short (and my TBR pile is too high) to finish a book that I am not enjoying. I’m ruthless. I give it to around page 100, maybe even page 50 is it’s a really short book. If it hasn’t captured me by then, bye-bye! It also helps that I don’t buy many books before I’ve read them. I will buy my favorite authors’ latest titles, but otherwise it’s the library for me.
Ohhhh, so many books. I used to push on to the end. I have a few that I have tried to throw away, but I keep them, and when I see their spines looking out at me, they make me by turns angry and sick. Because the books were either utter dross (to me) or had endings that were horrid. It strengthens my resolve never to do that to readers. Nevahhhhhh! (That’s my Aussie accent coming through).
I rarely torture myself beyond the point where I decide something is irredeemable garbage, but I did this weekend, and I shall call it “So I can tell anyone with the gall to suggest this book is good, in exacting detail, every single thing about it that sucks great pimpled goat balls.”
I’m a firm believer in the Nancy Pearl rule (I’d heard it as subtract your age from 100), but I don’t generally feel obligated to stick to it. I did with The Marriage Plot over the weekend and was hooked by the right time, but by the last 100 pages, I was praying for release and yet finished it because I had to see what they would do. I finished it and was just damned irritated with everyone involved, yet strangely self-satisfied for finishing a piece of “literature” after going on quite the wild romance tear for a couple months.
I *really* like “obligaread” for the book-in-series compulsion. Thankfully, I was finally able to break my ABS problem. “Masobookism” is good. Or, “bookwreck” - it is *so* bad, you can’t look away.
I like the terms train wreck syndrome, hate-read, and obligaread. I have to admit in the past I would not consider leaving a book in the DNF category but there are too many books and not enough time line… I’ve tagged a handful of books, that I have finished, that cause negative or critical thoughts to constantly pop up while reading as “angry book reads”. Any book that I feel causes an excessive emotional reaction falls into the DNF pile now…
As I mentioned in my review of A Stolen Season, I went from reading because I was convinced I was missing the Magic Thing that had created positive reviews for this book, to reading because I just had to find out how the plot was resolved.
Trixienv said on 11.21.12 at 12:29 PM • [link]
I am gonna call it ABS. Anita Blake Syndrome. It is the only thing that got me to read the last 4 or 5 books in the series, and I thinking I may need to go to rehab to convince myself that I absolutely do not need to read the next one.
cleo said on 11.21.12 at 01:13 PM • [link]
I like FTF - forced to finish, because that’s how it feels. It happens to me more with action / suspense books than romance - if I can’t figure out how the plot is going to end I’ll plug on, grumbling, but feeling like I *have* to finish it. And sometimes I do feel that odd affection - I still feel that towards The Firm and I read it some 20 years ago. By the time I realized that I *hated* everyone in the book and didn’t care about them at all, I was invested enough in the plot to have to finish it,. And you know, I remember that reading experience more vividly than reading books that I didn’t hate.
Someone mentioned completism - to me, that describes having to read everything by an author or everything in a series - I suffer from completism when it comes to JAK - I’ve been reading her since early 90s on and I feel compelled to read her new releases, even though I’m mighty, mighty tired of the Arcane Society. And I’m starting to feel that with Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changling series. I haven’t loved every book but I’m committed to completing the damn series (if it ever ends)
KimD said on 11.21.12 at 01:17 PM • [link]
Shit Shingles
I have a box full of books I regret buying and refuse to display for the curious or donate to torture any other souls.
I was recently asked, “What’s in the box?”
“Shit shingles. Handle with care.”
Jacquilynne Schlesier said on 11.21.12 at 01:27 PM • [link]
I’d call it Optimism: either the ending will redeem the book, or the book will be so bad that at least I will be able to enjoy mocking it.
I’m most often hopeful about redemption when reading books with shitty, unlikable characters. Perhaps they will be humanized in a realistic, honest way and grow and change and in the end, I will find that I like them and find their changes believable.
And if not, well, there’s always mockery.
riwally said on 11.21.12 at 01:31 PM • [link]
ECS-Ending Compulsion Syndrome. A severe form of OCD, when you just can’t put a book down until you try to justify why you’ve kept reading a lousy book with a crappy plot and substandard characters. Then you go and drink three glasses wine, three times to delete the knowledge that you just read a SHITTY BOOK TO THE VERY END.
Lyra Archer said on 11.21.12 at 01:42 PM • [link]
This happens with saddening regularity- usually why I refer to myself as a “furious hampster of book-reading rage” to my friends (my folks have learned to stop asking what I’m reading). Though it might be a wise idea to keep a few terms on hand. Some people might completely appreciate an in depth discussion of masobookism, while more delicate company may pearl clutch & spontaneously combust.
Tamara Hogan said on 11.21.12 at 01:42 PM • [link]
I’m more of the Parker/wallbanger school - life’s too short, and reading time’s too precious, to finish a book I don’t like. Into the donation bag it goes.
Joan said on 11.21.12 at 02:17 PM • [link]
I saved this comment from Nili from May 18, 2012 which pretty much sums it up for me too. “…when I say I am a compulsive reader, I mean that in the “some people take medication for this” sort of way.” (Nili)
FlyingFreeways said on 11.21.12 at 02:20 PM • [link]
I like masobookism as a term. I turn the experience of reading a crappy book into a WTF finding expedition—I enjoy figuring out exactly why I find the book so awful.
GhengisMom said on 11.21.12 at 02:31 PM • [link]
I’ve finally come to regard these books as bad boyfriends. You just keep reading because you started reading it. I am now a pro at breaking up with bad books. It is so freeeeeeing! And then I go traipsing into my next read with starry-eyed optimism. I broke up with Come a Little Closer last night. And I grabbed a tub of ice cream to soothe my resentment over the money and time wasted, and my comfort read What Happens in London and settled in for the evening.
Rij said on 11.21.12 at 03:02 PM • [link]
Somebody Else’s Problem
For me, putting a book aside is almost too easy and I refuse to waste time on a book I’m not enjoying. Which leaves me with not only bad unfinished books but also good books that are left in limbo because something distracted me at a slow bit or I was in the mood for something else.
Kayleigh Anne said on 11.21.12 at 03:34 PM • [link]
Pure literary masochism, also known as my life. I just can’t let a book beat me, it’d be like Al Capone going down for tax evasion.
Sarah W said on 11.21.12 at 03:43 PM • [link]
Bloody-Minded Stubbornness.
Joanna S. said on 11.21.12 at 04:13 PM • [link]
My vote is DEFINITELY for “Masobookism.” That’s it. Like, totally. Fur-shure.
Jenny Dolton said on 11.21.12 at 04:13 PM • [link]
I call it “Reading For School”—otherwise there is no way I’m finishing a book I hate. I’ll skip to the end to see if maybe the annoying heroine fell off a cliff or was pecked to death by pidgeons, but I won’t bother with the rest of the book.
LauraN said on 11.21.12 at 05:13 PM • [link]
When I hate a book or catch myself wishing I was closer to the end so I could just figure out how everything ended and move on (usually because I’m just not that invested in the characters), I just read the last chapter or two and move on with my life.
That being said, I think “Cockholm Syndrome” is a hilarious term, but better used for heroines who stay with an alphole for no apparent reason, aside from his Mighty Wang.
Crystal Grey-Hewett said on 11.21.12 at 05:19 PM • [link]
I read the entire Twilight series wondering when it was going to get good. If that isn’t hate-reading, I don’t know what is. On the bright side, when I talk smack about those books, I can do it from a place of knowledge.
Alpha Lyra said on 11.21.12 at 05:30 PM • [link]
I like the term “hate reading.” I only do it for books where the author has failed to get me emotionally involved (usually this happens because I dislike the characters), but the plot or premise has successfully hooked me, and I really want to find out what happens. And it’s not enough to just flip to the ending because I want to see how the book gets there. So I’m reading because of curiosity, but with a lack of enjoyment.
Laurie Evans said on 11.21.12 at 08:16 PM • [link]
I like Cockholm Syndrome and Hate-reading! lol
I do this less and less as time goes on. *Sometimes* I will skip forward to see how it ends… The number of pages I give a book before I move on is brutal! (Very few these days.)
BrooklynShoeBabe said on 11.21.12 at 08:38 PM • [link]
I like brussel sprouts, so I like “Hate-Read,” “Masobookism,” and “ECS-Ending Compulsion Syndrome.” I was currently reading a book like that and I just kept reading it hoping it would get better because there was always a glimmer of “it might get better.” With 40 pages or so left, I gave up. I literally made a gutteral roar and threw the book down. Then I donated it to my library’s book sale.
electricbluecity said on 11.21.12 at 08:47 PM • [link]
Masobookism. You love to read but the damn book just hurts so much with every word.
Fallen Series by Lauren Kate. I actually grunted when I finished the last book.
Aurora said on 11.21.12 at 08:59 PM • [link]
I’ve read a lot of books that I couldn’t stand (here’s looking at you Twilight, Janelle Taylor’s first three ecstasy books, others,) and I’m the same way. I don’t give up easily, and this also comes towards books. It would take a lot of will power for me to say “forget about it,” and just put it down. What of the term “literary masochism” or something like “book whore?” even though its wrong and time consuming you still end up doing it…hope message is okay.
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Frisc said on 11.21.12 at 09:19 PM • [link]
Bragging rights.
Lostshadows said on 11.21.12 at 09:57 PM • [link]
I like “train or car wreck syndrome.” You know it’s bad, but you feel compelled to slow down and have a good look at the disaster.
I’m getting better at, intentionally, not finishing books. Now I just need to get better at avoiding “oooo shiny! syndrome” and “library book overload” and I can cut back on the unintentionally not finished ones.
Vicki said on 11.21.12 at 09:59 PM • [link]
For a while, I was that way with Katherine Stone. I loved her first couple books then they started to be similar and all her characters had jewel colored eyes. I finally just gave up though I am still sometimes tempted. I am now at book 5 in Virgin River and starting to feel a little that way, compelled to continue though not as enamored as I once was. Once there were guys like that, too, beautiful and sexy and exciting initially but just not quite right for the long term….it’s not you, it’s me. We have to stop seeing each other.
Kylie said on 11.21.12 at 10:25 PM • [link]
Hmm, I don’t do this as much anymore- I skip to the end and then continue or reject based on that.
M y husband on the other hand will tell me how bad the book is, and one occassion he was depressed by the storyline, and will then refuse to stop reading. the book that depressed him ( he was moping around for over a day) was some American super romance from harlequin. He gets much more upset than i do about bad storylines. So, I will go with sadobookism.
The good thing about bad books, it makes appreciate good writers all the more.
PamG said on 11.21.12 at 11:45 PM • [link]
I used to call the process of finishing a book I disliked “homework.” I didn’t always do it either. I now use the modified Nancy Pearl rule. If you don’t like it after 50 pages, move on, unless you’re over 50, in which case you deduct a page for each year past 50. I only feel obligated to read *mumble* pages these days, and thanks to book blogs and ebooks, I never have to wait for a better book. Bad prose is more likely to turn me off than bad characters, but I also hate it when a series that I’ve been reading becomes so static and repetitive that I can’t distinguish between books. Stephanie Plum #17 was the end of Evanovich for me, but that series was all “obligareads” since maybe #6. Stephanie Laurens, too. Same structure, same heros, same sex scenes, same words, same fucking ruched nipples….
CutMyTeethOnKleypas said on 11.22.12 at 12:00 AM • [link]
Guilty Displeasure. since it’s NOT a guilty pleasure (or any pleasure for that matter).
KellyM said on 11.22.12 at 11:04 PM • [link]
I’m a completist. If I’ve invested time in starting something, I need to finish it no matter how bad it is. This is especially true if it’s something that everyone is talking about and I want to find out what all the fuss is about (50 Shades of Ruining My Weekend, I’m looking at you). It’s very very rare that I refuse to finish a book. Occasionally I’ll put aside a series if it’s forgettable enough (Anita Blake). But yes, sadly, I’m a completist. And apparently a masochist in some cases (thank you Twilight, may I have another?).
DianeO said on 11.23.12 at 03:30 AM • [link]
I kind of like Hate-Read. I find this happens on my Kindle versus an actual book, because I can’t throw the Kindle across the room as I used to. Since I’ve starting reading your site, I’ve found a lot more great books and am not “grabbing” anything that seems remotely good which makes me want to throw them across the room when they turn out to be shit. But the book Laura Kinsale mentions in your twitter convo, Wow…how lazy was that writer?
ThingsAlySays said on 11.23.12 at 01:12 PM • [link]
For me it means “Unwilling to admit I wasted my money”.
But thankfully for the last few years I’ve been willing to stop reading a book when I wasn’t liking it. I just don’t have enough free time to waste on things I don’t like.
Nowadays I borrow books first and then if I liked them I buy them. Books are WAY too expensive over here! So if I bought a book and it ended up being CRAP then I’d feel extremely angry and I’d probably try to read it until the end, hoping against hope that it got better.
librarygrrl64 said on 11.23.12 at 05:34 PM • [link]
I really laughed at the term “danbrownesia,” for some reason. :-D
Life is too short (and my TBR pile is too high) to finish a book that I am not enjoying. I’m ruthless. I give it to around page 100, maybe even page 50 is it’s a really short book. If it hasn’t captured me by then, bye-bye! It also helps that I don’t buy many books before I’ve read them. I will buy my favorite authors’ latest titles, but otherwise it’s the library for me.
LisaC said on 11.23.12 at 05:43 PM • [link]
Readsentment.
Myth979 said on 11.23.12 at 06:41 PM • [link]
I call it red penning with hardcopy books. With ebooks I have to get more creative.
Ebony McKenna said on 11.24.12 at 05:44 PM • [link]
Ohhhh, so many books.
I used to push on to the end. I have a few that I have tried to throw away, but I keep them, and when I see their spines looking out at me, they make me by turns angry and sick. Because the books were either utter dross (to me) or had endings that were horrid.
It strengthens my resolve never to do that to readers. Nevahhhhhh! (That’s my Aussie accent coming through).
Ren said on 11.25.12 at 03:34 PM • [link]
I rarely torture myself beyond the point where I decide something is irredeemable garbage, but I did this weekend, and I shall call it “So I can tell anyone with the gall to suggest this book is good, in exacting detail, every single thing about it that sucks great pimpled goat balls.”
Ipomoea said on 11.26.12 at 10:32 PM • [link]
I’m a firm believer in the Nancy Pearl rule (I’d heard it as subtract your age from 100), but I don’t generally feel obligated to stick to it. I did with The Marriage Plot over the weekend and was hooked by the right time, but by the last 100 pages, I was praying for release and yet finished it because I had to see what they would do. I finished it and was just damned irritated with everyone involved, yet strangely self-satisfied for finishing a piece of “literature” after going on quite the wild romance tear for a couple months.
S Hutchison said on 11.27.12 at 12:50 AM • [link]
I *really* like “obligaread” for the book-in-series compulsion. Thankfully, I was finally able to break my ABS problem. “Masobookism” is good. Or, “bookwreck” - it is *so* bad, you can’t look away.
Roxanne said on 12.03.12 at 01:09 AM • [link]
I like the terms train wreck syndrome, hate-read, and obligaread. I have to admit in the past I would not consider leaving a book in the DNF category but there are too many books and not enough time line… I’ve tagged a handful of books, that I have finished, that cause negative or critical thoughts to constantly pop up while reading as “angry book reads”. Any book that I feel causes an excessive emotional reaction falls into the DNF pile now…
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