Reluctant Reading
No, I am not pissed off. It's just a related icon.
I'm trying to read Anne Bishop's latest Black Jewels book, Twilight's Dawn. It's been hard going. I made a little progress yesterday and today. I have heard spoilers (though apparently not all of them), and it has made me very, very reluctant to finish the book.
I am not someone who hates these characters or these books. I do have many specific problems with them, but that is more to do with personal experiences with other people who are fans. But I find them decent escapism most of the time and can put out of mind what i don't like. But I don't think I've had a harder time reading a book than I have this one in ages. I think the last one was also due to a spoiled character death (and I'm not talking about a Harry Potter book there).
I think some of it is that I role play in the fandom, or I did. And the other book I mentioned involved the death of a character who was like an adoptive father to one of my characters, so it felt so very personal. It does this time too. Part of my brain insists that these people are my family, even if there world is flawed and they aren't perfect. If I don't read it, then it won't happen. But it does.
Augh!
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I'm trying to read Anne Bishop's latest Black Jewels book, Twilight's Dawn. It's been hard going. I made a little progress yesterday and today. I have heard spoilers (though apparently not all of them), and it has made me very, very reluctant to finish the book.
I am not someone who hates these characters or these books. I do have many specific problems with them, but that is more to do with personal experiences with other people who are fans. But I find them decent escapism most of the time and can put out of mind what i don't like. But I don't think I've had a harder time reading a book than I have this one in ages. I think the last one was also due to a spoiled character death (and I'm not talking about a Harry Potter book there).
I think some of it is that I role play in the fandom, or I did. And the other book I mentioned involved the death of a character who was like an adoptive father to one of my characters, so it felt so very personal. It does this time too. Part of my brain insists that these people are my family, even if there world is flawed and they aren't perfect. If I don't read it, then it won't happen. But it does.
Augh!
This entry is cross-posted from http://dame-grise.dreamwidth.org/533716.html. If you wish to comment there, try OpenID or ask me for an invite code.