Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Couldn't Finish

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

This week's topic is a freebie. I decided to own up to those books I just couldn't finish. I hate not finishing a book but I hate admitting I couldn't finish it more. So I'm taking a big leap and admitting I couldn't finish these ten books.

 I spied a coworker reading Cheese and Culture and put it on my tbr list. But it was too dry for me. Interesting topic though.

 All The Pretty Horses is on my Fill In The Gaps Challenge. I read about 50 pages before giving up.

Another one off my Fill In The Gaps Challenge. But I would get through The Women. 

I've come to the realization that I don't like most erotica. There was nothing wrong with Bound by Honor. I'm slightly prudish and prefer more chaste romances.

 Honestly, I was bored to tears by The Picture of Dorian Gray.

 I have such a hard time with fictionalized life stories. I spent the time I read Blonde wondering how close to Marilyn's life it was. After a while it started to hurt my enjoyment of Blonde.

 The cover of Bitch Is The New Black caught my eye. Unfortunately it didn't work for me.

 Tropic of Cancer was another Fill In The Gap book. I got bored quickly.

I had read an article about Barbara Hutton which prompted me to pick up Poor Little Rich Girl. Another one I just couldn't get through.

The Night Strangers creeped me out. I was reading it before bed and it gave me terrible nightmares. I couldn't continue reading it. I am a scaredy cat. 

What books could you just not finish? Did you read any of these? Any I should give a second chance?

Did Not Finish Report

This is a first for me. I think this is the most books I’ve ever abandoned in a month. Perhaps it’s because it’s the start of the year and I don’t want to waste time reading something that isn’t appealing to me, but here’s what I haven’t been able to complete.

The Swerve- I was really looking forward to this one. But just because a book wins awards doesn’t mean I’m going to enjoy it. There’s a ton of history in this book, some I really enjoyed. Ultimately I felt like I was reading a school textbook. When I couldn’t muster any enthusiasm, I had to put it aside.

Corsets and Clockwork-Sadly, I had just read Home Improvement, another anthology. Too many anthologies. I might pick it up again in the future.

  

Eating India-I had high hopes for this one too. Part memoir, part travelogue, part history of Indian food. But like The Swerve after time, I started dreading reading it. I think it was the tone and voice of her writing that I ultimately disliked.

Did you read any of these? What did you think?