We always have that one book that we avoid for too long but the moment we read them, they become our favourites.
For me this year – ‘A little life’ and ‘Lonesome dove’.
I was in a bad reading slump, Lonesome dove got me out of it finally and to think I dnfed it once and was avoiding picking it.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns recently got me out of a reading slump. So well written and such a great story.
I just read To Kill A Mockingbird this year for the first time, which I had been avoiding forever (it’s a long stupid story,) and obviously I loved it so much and was like why on earth did I wait so long to read this.
Mine was also Lonesome Dove.
Have a habit of getting a book I know I want to read, but don’t get to it for a while, which turns into years and sometimes decades.
Picked up Gödel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter in the late 90s, finally read it 3 years ago. Mind bending book that I’m not sure I would have grasped in my earlier days – not that I grasped all of it in my 5th decade either – lol.
Started Crime and Punishment in 2003 and put it down as I wasn’t patient with it. Finally read it 4 years ago and wish that story was with me earlier.
*Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo* by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It wasn’t the *About That Kiss* by Harper Bliss meets *Interview With A Vampire* by Anne Rice that I thought it would be, and I put it off for so long because it was so damn popular and I’m an obstinate and oppositionally defiant bastard. But it’s an amazing book.
Not so much a romance story as it is a story about love, if that makes sense. And it’s had me thinking about the “happily ever after” and what those really are or what it even means.