In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books," and we understand how he felt. Books have been our best friends ever since we can remember and we're going to celebrate our love for them with this 'reading challenge.' The aim is to tick one book off every month!

Although our lives have taken us in different directions, this challenge, and this blog, is also a way for us to celebrate our friendship as well as our love of reading.

This blog is really just for fun and each entry will explain how the 'book of the month' fits into the category, why we made our choices, and include some comments/thoughts on each book.

Let the challenge commence!!

Donna and Ida

Saturday, 15 October 2016

Challenge 11: A Book You Started But Never Finished

Ida's book: "The Historian" by Elizabeth Korstova (Little, Brown and Company, 2005)


So this book has been a long way underway. I saw it in a charity shop ages ago and thought it sounded interesting, but given a very slow start, it is continually abandoned in favour of other books. It therefore seemed the obvious choice for this challenge!

Comments:

Good Lord, this took me ages to read! The story itself was okay, I'm a sucker for vampire stuff (no pun intended), but some of the choices the author made just seemed weird. It's almost 3 or 4 different stories interwoven, and sometimes it can be hard to keep track of which year we're supposed to be in. If it wasn't for this challenge I doubt I ever would have finished it, although the final 200 pages or so were pretty good.

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