Books Not Chosen

Lest you think that I love every book I put on hold from lists or reviews, I do not. Here is an example that I decided to put back for now.

Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
After enjoying Stevens first novel, Still Missing, I was looking forward to this second one. However, when I turned to the first page, it starts with a young woman talking to her therapist. The framework of the novel is the same as Still Missing -- young woman discussing traumatic event with her therapist interspersed with the story of the trauma. In this case, the trauma has to do with adoption & searching for birth parents. I probably will read it at some time, it's just too soon after reading the first one for something so similar.
I usually have a selection of books coming in from holds at the library and other older books I want to read for some reason. I usually must decide which ones I have time or reason to read now, and which ones will have to wait. If I start a book, and it doesn't interest me in the first few pages, then I don't keep it. There are too many really good books to read and more coming every day.

I am currently reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932). It is a humorous send-up of British novels of manners such as Jane Austen. Looks to be great fun now that I have a new copy - the one I had interlibrary loaned was very musty, and the type was hard to read. I can't stand that mustiness - it makes me sneeze and makes my eyes water. It was a Penguin Classic & had only been in the lending library since 1997 - but if books aren't opened and read, they get musty fairly quickly.

Happy Reading!~