Quick Takes #2 When to stop reading a book.

I have not been reading very much over the past few days.  I am starting to think this is a sign that I am not enjoying the book that I am reading (as much as I try to convince myself that I do really enjoy it).  Over the past few months I have decided that there is nothing wrong with not finishing a book or returning a book to the library unread just because when you got home you couldn't convince yourself to actually open it.  It just seems like a better idea to stop trying to read the book that in reality you don't love and find one that you do love.  So today I though I would list some ways to determine that you should stop reading a book (because sometimes you really think you do like it).
 

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Last night you decided not to read before going to sleep.  And the night before, and the one before that.

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 When you do read before bed you rarely finish more than one page before you can't keep your eyes open.

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You find yourself siting down to read and when you get up the bookmark has not moved.

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You have not read in so long that you can't remember what book you are currently reading.

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You get an email from the library telling you that the book is due but you have not yet made it through the introduction.

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 Someone asks you what the book is about and you really can't answer them, not because it is to complicated but because you really don't know.

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Well if this sounds like you (and it definitely sounds like me right now) I would say that its time for you to give up on that book that you are reading (if we could even call it that) and make a trip to the library.  Why waste your time on this kind of reading when you could really be reading?
Next week, How you know when you are reading a book that you love. Hopefully I'll find one by then.

Also keep all the people involved in the shooting in Colorado in your prayers. 
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