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Monday 20 September 2010
When to quit reading a book

A friend gave me this useful formula : Subtract your age from the number 100, and the answer is the number of pages you have to read before giving up on a book you’re not enjoying.* Her advice came to mind the other day as I was preparing to return yet another partially read book to the library. Oops, I thought : am I dangerously deficient in perseverance?

No, I said to myself. Life is short - why spend it with books I don’t really want to read?

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  5. jaycruz reblogged this from azspot and added:
    67 I might use this one day. The thing is that I’m one those I-have-to-finish-it-even-it’s-bad types of readers.
  6. michaelikesit reblogged this from azspot and added:
    I’ve had this conversation several times. It usually comes up when somebody tells me they just finished a book, I ask...
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    I think it’s really important to let yourself quit reading a book. Otherwise you end up not reading at all! The book...
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