Top Ten Tuesday is a wonderful bookish meme brought to us by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is ten books that were difficult for me to read. While I might not have ten, I at least have a handful of books I can list (and can think of off the top of my head).
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
While I do like the overall story and some of the characters, The Fellowship of the Ring was painful for me to read. I appreciate Tolkien’s world building and the amount of work and research that he put into his novels, but I couldn’t get past the pages upon pages of description and how so many characters had similar names. I read this my senior year in high school for class and it was one of the few books I couldn’t make myself finish.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
I’ve seen this on a couple of lists today. I read and enjoyed this book, but read it during a time in my life where the subject matter made it very difficult for me to read. A friend of mine had just passed away and it just hit too close to home.
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
I read this book during my hiatus from blogging and therefore didn’t post a review. While I love the Divergent trilogy, this book was really hard for me to read. It was weird to me that Veronica Roth chose the last book in her trilogy to write from a dual perspective. I love Tris and Four, but their voices were so similar that I constantly had to go back to the beginning of the chapter to check who’s perspective I was reading from. I enjoyed the story, but it made the book so hard to read and finish.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
This is another book that I liked, but it just lacked something for me. I may go back and start it all over again, but for now, I did not finish this book.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke
Cringeworthy for me. Just cringeworthy. I always try to give books a chance and try to finish them. I finished this one and wished I hadn’t.
That’s about it for me for today.