Greetings! Got an exciting post for you today! I’m gonna share my ten most recent “did not finish” books as part of this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. TTT was originally created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 but is now being hosted by Jana over at https://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/ . This is my first TTT so I’m really excited to finally be participating and I’m happy to have found a book blogging community. So… let’s go!
But before we begin, I do have an honorable mention. Only because I haven’t officially DNF (did not finish) it but I’m also really not in the mood to pick it up.
Honorable mention:
The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones
I’m gonna hold off on giving any type of review for this right now because this is an ARC (advance reader copy) that I’m currently reading, given to me by NetGalley. So I thank them for the ARC. I’ve been having a love and hate relationship with ARCs for a while now. I like the idea of them and I like getting copies and being one of the first few to read a novel. But then I be feeling bad when the novel just doesn’t interest me anymore and I just want to quit reading it (which I find to be the case with all ARCs I’ve received, which isn’t a lot). I’m only 7% of the way through it and I still got time to read it before it’s published… so this ain’t over… I’m still willing to give this a chance.
Also, before we dive into the list I do want to mention that I don’t DNF too often. I’m not opposed to DNFing but sometimes I want to read the bad and the ugly. I like a little rant here and there. Truthfully, I don’t be trusting readers/Goodreads users who be having all and only 5 star ratings. That’s just me 🤷🏾♀️ So some of these books I mention maybe have been DNF’d last year or previous. Also, if you head over to my Goodreads account (the link is to the left side of this page where the icon is) my DNF list is on my profile under the shelf called “yeah-no”. A little frequent saying of mine 😆
1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
First of all… I thought a woman wrote this because of the name. So that’s cool; I like unisex names and never knew Evelyn to be one. But this was a book I DNF’d, like, last week. I honestly blame this book for the reading slump I’m in right now 😞 I had borrowed a copy of this book from my job. In the 4 years I’ve worked there I’ve never seen copies of this book in the store and we only received one copy. I actually felt bad holding onto this book because the next day I got a customer in who had asked me if we had it in store. Which was bizarre seeing as how a customer has never asked me about this book before and here I was holding the one copy hostage at home and not enjoying it. I only got through the prologue and I just couldn’t do any more from there. I originally became interested in the book when I read that the movie Saltburn had some of the vibes from this book and I actually enjoyed Saltburn. The 75th anniversary edition of this book actually gives me Saltburn vibes. I hate that I couldn’t stick it out with this and see it to the end.
2. Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
I barely made it into this. I probably DNF’d this at 2%, I know I didn’t get near page 3. Maybe my mistake was listening to the audiobook. I’m also not a huge romance reader and I don’t have interest in stories that take place during weddings and I hate event planning… so why did I try to read this you ask? Because my favorite booktuber (gabbyreads) highly recommended this and the Goodreads rating for this is going crazy! But this really isn’t up my alley.
3. The Fallen (Bluford, #11) by Paul Langan
How many of y'all remember, read and loved the Bluford series?? 🙋🏾♀️ Iykyk. I’ve been wanting to reread the books I’ve read in this series thus far but I haven’t read all of them so I thought I’d try to pick the series back up where I kind of left off so this one was up next. It was going fine enough but I eventually realized that I was no longer in the mood to read it and it wasn’t something I really wanted to spend time reading even though these books are only a little over one hundred pages long. The interest came and went but this is still a beloved series and I do still plan on reading more from it.
Side note: Goodreads is bugging. So from here on I have to go through my memory and recall which book came next on my DNF list because Goodreads is not really allowing me to go off of exact moments when I DNF something but rather the date that I added said book to my DNF list. And I can’t get it to organize itself out the way it should no matter how I change the “sorted by”. Good thing for the past two years I’ve kept a reading journal so I guess I’ll just resort to that. Hey, I’m letting you know in real time how I’m going about making and finding this list 😅
4. Life of a College Bandsman by Jaxon Grant
This one actually should probably be 3rd on this list but it’s whatever, I didn’t really consider this a DNF anyways because I was enjoying this for the most part and definitely plan on getting back into it and reading more books by this author. But my relationship with Kindle Unlimited be on and off ever since they raised their price. One minute I be having it and next minute I be getting rid of it because… $12?!? Yeah, I can’t be doing that every month. But this book was right up my alley, definitely trying to read more books like this.
5. Silent Night by R. L. Stine
R. L. Stine don’t ever miss so I don’t know what this one was about. I was confused by the protagonist in this because she would just keep rambling on about being scared of something… plus the chapters seemed quite long for a Stine book. I wasn’t even invested in this so it had to get DNF’d.
6. Thrown Off the Ice by Taylor Fitzpatrick
Eh! I had wrote down: “Ain’t nobody got time for this!” So I guess that was what it was. I had glimpsed over some reviews on it to see just how interesting this would or would not get for me and I decided that I didn’t need to continue on. I didn’t care about the story or characters. Kind of feel like I’m struggling trying to find a good m/m romance.
7. This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib by Quan Millz
LMAO to this making the list! Yes, you’re reading the title correctly and surprisingly… the story and writing wasn’t too bad. It was actually going pretty good buuuuuttt… it’s a Kindle book and me and Kindle are on the off right now. I’ve heard a lot about this author and his questionable book titles so I finally decided to give him a go and I wasn’t having a bad time with this… though some of the characters in this are horrible people, like the main one being the hoe that got the roaches in her crib 😅 I definitely look forward to getting back into this and more of this author’s work.
8. Didn’t Nobody Give A Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Huh, I forgot about this one. This book had its funny moments but I chose to DNF it around page 33 or so. I just didn’t think I needed to read it. I wasn’t all too interested, if I remember correctly I think I had a little trouble trying to understand the writing in this one so I did appreciate the audiobook for that.
9. The Ultimate Sacrifice by Anthony Fields
I wish this was gay… 😂 I would have probably continued reading this if it were gay. Also at one point I had wrote down: “Why I got to be the editor of this book??” Lmao! Yeah… I can’t stand books that missed out on the editing process because ain’t no way somebody proofread this. But I got quite a bit of way into this, DNF’d around page 84. But I don’t know why I thought I saw potential in finishing this. Plus there’s at least 5 other books in this series… I’m good on that, love.
10. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
I thought I found renewed interest in this while reading it after determining that I wasn’t in the mood for it but, damn, I had changed my mind 😆 I can’t remember a single thing from this, maybe I didn’t care for the character, who knows, that could have been the reason. At this point we’re on DNFs from 2023… so there you go.
Type soon 😆✌🏾
