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- March 18, 2023 at 5:47 pm #136614
Jasmine
Managing AmbassadorI keep putting off finishing a book. It’s the last of a 3 book series, does anyone else do this?
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- March 23, 2023 at 1:43 pm #136725
The last book I read was the autobiography of Carlos Santana. Took a week to read the first two chapters. Took five more months to get to the end. I think I’ll stick to magazines.
- March 20, 2023 at 9:17 am #136657
I do find it is hard to read the last 20-25 pages of a book. It doesn’t matter if it is fiction or non-fiction, the last 20-25 pages seems to go so slow and are tedious. I have to push myself to finish. It seems that the tension in the story has been resolved and the few remaining pages are less enthralling.
Speaking of books, is there a book club on this site?
Mary
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- March 20, 2023 at 9:54 am #136658
Mary, actually there is a book club here. It’s called the Writers Library Group, and I have sent you an invite to that Group. In fact, we have many special interest Groups for you and others to check out and join. I hope you accept the invite and join in the fun. Hugs, Michelle
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- March 20, 2023 at 10:33 am #136662
Also, don’t forget the listing…
- March 21, 2023 at 7:15 am #136682
Sorry, I must plead ignorance. What do you mean by “the listing”?
- March 21, 2023 at 7:59 am #136689
There is a Book of the Month thread. It has information on a number of books that members have read and their thoughts on the texts. It’s a pretty broad range of books: biographies, transition, transgender politics, etc.
- March 19, 2023 at 5:29 pm #136642
I can’t say that I have direct experience. I do think in terms of stories from a personal perspective. I suppose it is how the world makes sense to me in that events have a beginning, a middle and an end. Therefore, if I am reading a book, the end is an integral part and has to be read. It would seem incomplete otherwise.
However, I do know this. The more time away from an activity makes it harder to resume…
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- March 19, 2023 at 11:23 pm #136644
I known I must finish the story, I need to known if everything ends as I predicted. Since the series is final, that’s what I dread. The story ends. As for other series I have really enjoyed I do find time away from the story, I loss the emotional attachment. I recently discovered a continuation of a series I read a while back. Whether I pick up the series again, I may just re read the whole series.
- March 19, 2023 at 10:09 am #136637
No, actually it doesn’t end; unless you let it. To me, part of the aura of the non-fiction book is that it allows the reader to continue to think of that would be the next chapter in those characters lives. Kind of like our own ‘never ending stories’. Stories never end until no one thinks about them anymore and they are forgotten. Michelle
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- March 19, 2023 at 11:29 pm #136645
I have toyed with the idea of continuing a story the way I would like to see a story go. Sometimes I can daydream about it and it’s good. But something I realize about myself, my imagination is just not as it use to be. Something I traded in my life to live a real life fantasy. I’ll forever want for something that may be gone, hopefully something transition can reverse and my creativity grows instead of dying out.
- March 19, 2023 at 6:15 am #136626
OMG Jasmine, given that the overwhelming majority of the books I even have are reference, I do that all the time. But when I used to read non-fiction, I used to read the entire thing. Just maybe not in one sitting. My mom does it as well. She does love her dramatic intrigue novels…. On her Kindle! Hugs, Michelle
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