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?
I think it’s really important to let yourself quit reading a book. Otherwise you end up not reading at all! The book languishes on your bedside table, making you feel guilty and preventing you from moving on to something you might actually want to read. Or at least that’s what happens to me.
(Source: azspot)
