The Overbooked Society discussion

Hi! I'm currently reading The night circus but I find it a little bit "sluggish". What would you do if you feel that the book is going to slow and you can't finish it anymore?
Everybody says that is it a good book and I think it is beautifully written but I don't know

that's a good idea. I think I'll do that? Do you have a book recommendation?

Thank you, Mary!
I wanted to read Carry on since a long time ago, maybe it's a good moment to give it a try☀️

I might get some hate for this... but Again But Better is about to be a one star DNF for me. I hate how when someone is in a relationship and then disregard that person to endlessly flirt with a person they just met. Yes I know relationships have falling outs, but just talk to that person instead of flirting with another person. It sort of psyched me out and I may not pick it up again, but there is a chance only because I just want to give it a one star and saying I actually finished it.

Don't be afraid to DNF books if they aren't interesting to you even if they're super popular. There's so many good books out there; you don't need to waste your time on ones you don't like :)

Shawna, thank you! I think I'll stop reading The night circus. it's not my cup of tea. I'll focus my energy in found other books

Grave Mercy. This one I got maybe halfway through before I got bored and sort of forgot about it... but I've picked it up again and hoping to finish it this time :)

Gisselle, I hope you enjoy it! I've never read that one

omg mary i just got carry on today from the library and now im looking forward to it even more!

I used to hate DNFing books. Thought it made me a bad reader if I couldn't get through one. However, now I could not care less about DNFing a book. I just got out of a huge reading slump (literal years of not reading for fun) so now I do whatever it means to make it enjoyable, even if that means I DNF a book here and there.

I recently DNF'd Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel and the Shack by someone Young (cannot remember the first name right now).

Indecision I DNF'd because I felt it was trying too hard to sound smart and be a thought-provoking book. It constantly used unnecessarily big words where it just did not flow.

The Shack I DNF'd because I suck at reading the synapsis fully and didn't realize it was a religious book through and through and not a murder mystery. :(

I think that both of you are right. Reading is something that must be enjoyable not a boring or annoying thing.
I think that what happened me with The night circus was that I heard a lot of hype but the vocabulary is a bit weird, old fashioned words and things like that. I thought that it was my fault because English is not my native language but while I was reading it started to make feel less smart because all the hype. But now I think that the book is not that great.
I only will read for fun

I think that both of you are right. Reading is something that must be enjoyable not a boring or annoying thing.
I think that what happened me with The night circus was that I heard a lot of hype but the vocabulary is a bit weird, old fashioned words and things like that. I thought that it was my fault because English is not my native language but while I was reading it started to make feel less smart because all the hype. But now I think that the book is not that great.
I only will read for fun

I think that both of you are right. Reading is something that must be enjoyable not a boring or annoying thing.
I think that what happened me with The night circus was that I heard a lot of hype but the vocabulary is a bit weird, old fashioned words and things like that. I thought that it was my fault because English is not my native language but while I was reading it started to make feel less smart because all the hype. But now I think that the book is not that great.
I only will read for fun

I think that both of you are right. Reading is something that must be enjoyable not a boring or annoying thing.
I think that what happened me with The night circus was that I heard a lot of hype but the vocabulary is a bit weird, old fashioned words and things like that. I thought that it was my fault because English is not my native language but while I was reading it started to make feel less smart because all the hype. But now I think that the book is not that great.
I only will read for fun.

I think that both of you are right. Reading is something that must be enjoyable not a boring or annoying thing.
I think that what happened me with The night circus was that I heard a lot of hype but the vocabulary is a bit weird, old fashioned words and things like that. I thought that it was my fault because English is not my native language but while I was reading it started to make feel less smart because all the hype. But now I think that the book is not that great.
I only will read for fun.

Sorry the app got crazy and sent the message three times, I don't know how to delete the other extra two.

Sorry the app got crazy and sent the message three times, I don't know how to delete the other extra two.

Florencia wrote: "I think that both of you are right. Reading is something that must be enjoyable not a boring or annoying thing.
I think that what happened me with The night circus was that I heard a lot of hype b..."

That's completely understandable! Some books are just not for everyone. I've read a few books that people were obsessed with and I just couldn't get into them or read but never LOVED them you know? Once I started only reading what I liked and being more open to DNfing books made reading so much more enjoyable!

Also, don't worry about the message sending more than once! Happened to me too before lol

That's a good advice. thank you!

Moby Dick. I hate quakers. Their English is stupid (“Yee thoust shan’t be grieved” ugh…), as early white Americans they’re racist, sexist and every other kind of -ist. So I’m having much trouble with it lol.

I'm sorry about Moby Dick, I have never read it. Do you have to read for college or something like that?

Red queen was a struggle, but glass sword was terribly slow even tried the audiobook a year later 😫

Bared to you by Sylvia Day. i'm sorry but i've picked this book 2 times and i cant seem to finish it. its just not my style :(
but one day i will :)

ive been trying to read the 'stalking Jack the Ripper' series but once I get to page 50ish I cant continue, idk why its pretty good so far ive read

Marlene wrote: "ive been trying to read the 'stalking Jack the Ripper' series but once I get to page 50ish I cant continue, idk why its pretty good so far ive read"

hmm maybe you could put it down for a short while and read something else first? i was feeling the same for Serpent & Dove so i had put it aside for a while, and when i came back to it, it suddenly was continuable again xD

I tend to DNF classics mostly because I don't even know what's going on and my brain goes somewhere else until I finish the chapter and I have 0 idea what just happened. I keep trying to read The Hobbit, and I'm on my third try of trying to read it, but I just can't seem to get into it. I'm about halfway though and so I'll probably finish it, and some parts are good but there are definitely more fast paced books... sorry to the Tolkien fans out there haha.
Other books I DNFed because I had 0 idea what was going on were:
-Les Miserables (tried reading this at like 13 years old because I loved the musical. I may give it another try now that I'm 5 years older).
-The Awakening (had to read for school. Beautiful writing, but I can't follow it at all and I really don't like Edna).
-To Kill a Mockingbird (tried reading this recently but hard to read idk)
-Starship Troopers (started really strong but then I got bored like 60% through it. Beginning was great though imo).
-War of the Worlds (technically this isn't a DNF because I listened to the audiobook, but it really feels like a DNF because I didn't pay any attention to the audiobook and no idea what happened).
I think classics just aren't my thing haha (though I did like Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Chronicles of narnia-- first 3 books, Frankenstein, and The Kite Runner. Not sure if Kite runner counts as a classic yet but it's def a really good piece of literature!).
I feel weird DNFing books, but it's totally okay to do! I want reading to be fun, so I'm going to start trying to DNF books I can't seem to get into more often. I sometimes feel bad though because the author puts so much work into them.

I've been trying to read King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo for months. Six of Crows Duology are my favorite books of all time and I love the grishaverse so I don't know why its so hard for me to get through King of Scars. I really want to read it and I just can't. I even went to the book launch event in summer of 2019 and met Leigh ;-;

I can’t seem to finish the night circus nor the secret history. It’s just that the pace is soooo slow 🥲

Persephone Station - Did'nt like the way it was written but the cover is chef's kiss.
Blood and Honey - bland characters, poor world building. Don;t know how I finished the first one.
Red Queen - By the time I tried to read it, I wasn't a teenager anymore and had read a lot of books like it.

Red queen, These violent delights, and lady midnight

i wasn't going to finish shadow and bone but i forced myself to because it had good ratings and I'm going to finish the series and try six of crows

Den of Vipers, just no....
These Violent delights- ended up skimming through

Maya [slight-hiatus] wrote: "I can’t seem to finish the night circus nor the secret history. It’s just that the pace is soooo slow 🥲"

Night circus isnt very good, I could not finish it either

Kill switch by Penelope Douglas. I really love Damon, but I just can't finish his story. Maybe because of too much drama and tension there. Plus he's freaking married to the sister of his love interest. It's crazy.